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Some staffers fret that Frankel may have difficulty putting his stamp on the paper as long as such key Rosenthal lieutenants as Gelb and Greenfield remain in place. Both, however, face mandatory retirement in less than three years, enabling Frankel to select his own deputies from a younger cadre of Times-men. Among the candidates: Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney, 43; Foreign Editor Warren Hoge, 45; and Metropolitan Editor John Vinocur, 46, who is expected to become editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, which is partly owned by the Times...
...very top may not be far down the road. Within five years, Publisher Sulzberger will reach retirement age, and many assume that his son and heir apparent Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., 35, will put his own team into place. But that may not happen immediately, and at 56, Frankel could still enjoy a longer tenure than a two-term U.S. President. Meanwhile, Times staffers will have to start memorizing a new date. Frankel's birthday is April 3. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Bonnie Angelo and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...Frankel was a young man in a hurry. He had spent 13 years at the New York Times, first as a campus correspondent at Columbia University, later as a rewrite man on the night desk, where in 1956 he had become a newsroom hero for doing a quick and compelling job on the sinking of the Andrea Doria. He had served in Vienna and Moscow before going to Washington to cover the State Department, the White House and the CIA. So when the position of Washington bureau chief opened up, Frankel coveted the post. When he lost...
Family means a lot to Frankel, whose patience, industry and craft have now won him the Times's top slot. Max was born in Gera, Germany, in 1930, and the Gestapo expelled him and his parents in 1938. While he and his mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises...
...Times can be a contentious family, and Frankel has proved he can play good daddy or stern father. In his five years as Washington bureau chief, a position he finally did get in 1968, "Max was the most humane editor," recalls one Pulitzer prizewinner who worked for him. "It was a happy shop. Then he became the Sunday editor [in 1973] and grew fangs." The incisors, apparently, were retractable; as editorial-page editor since 1977, Frankel earned a reputation for being fair and open-minded. He tempered the paper's traditionally liberal editorial stance while solidifying the page's influence...