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...hubbub over Roberts almost overshadowed the main event, the confirmation that the top post will pass in July from Max Frankel, 64, to Lelyveld, 57. The transition will mark a change in style -- Frankel is courtly and professorial, Lelyveld shy yet blunt -- but not necessarily in substance. Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance...
...much as their copy. "Fear is not the best way to get things done," he says. This works better on the business side, he admits, where he has been able to wipe out layers of middle management, and less well on the editorial side, where executive editor Max Frankel joked on the day Sulzberger was named publisher that the newsroom would remain a monarchy...
Right after taking over as publisher, Sulzberger invited Frankel's subjects to two lunches of cold cuts and pasta (pleasantly tacky, a reporter said) at a nearby Marriott. When Sulzberger described his theories of management, a reporter piped up that terror was still the prevalent emotion on 43rd Street. Sulzberger went on in his usual cheerful way, while "Max and Joe ((Lelyveld, the managing editor)) looked like they wanted to die," the reporter recalls...
...Grapevine, a relationship comedy from David Frankel (Doctor, Doctor), at least tries a fresh approach. Each half-hour episode recounts a different boy-girl story through the words of assorted characters talking directly to the camera. Some of their comments are ironically juxtaposed; others are coyly suggestive. She: "We never even made it to the bedroom." He: "It happened for both of us real fast." She: "He does have big hands, I'll give him that...
...most conspicuous resistance to the story came from the New York Times, which relegated it to short shrift on back pages even after 60 Minutes. Says executive editor Max Frankel: "We had been meeting over the months on the issue of privacy, with long discussions on whether we are in the business of covering the sex lives of candidates and about how far we go in other privacy matters." He denies being affected by the outcry over an investigative profile last year of Patricia Bowman, the woman who alleged that she was raped by William Kennedy Smith...