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...Charles Frankel: An Image of Heaven...
Ailing were WomenSports and Working Woman, two worthy attempts to further female self-awareness and success. Both claimed a circulation of 200,000, but neither came close to making money. Financier J. Jay Frankel filed a bankruptcy petition for Working Woman, which began publication 14 months ago, then promised refinancing and resuscitation for the magazine in 1978. WomenSports, founded by Tennis Queen Billie Jean King and Husband Larry in 1974, was bought by Charter two years ago. The Kings may now reclaim ownership and publish a less ambitious version, perhaps as a deliberately nonprofit venture under their Women...
...critics say the theoretical soundness of the system is undermined by the discretion accorded everyone involved in setting prison terms, from prosecutors to judges to parole boards. Federal Judge Marvin Frankel, an articulate advocate of sentencing review, tells of a colleague who bragged about adding a fifth year to a convict's sentence simply because he spoke disrespectfully in court. Says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris, another opponent of indeterminate sentences: "Present practices are arbitrary, discriminatory and unprincipled...
...expanding the staff and adding regular reports on careers, management, technology and other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger) has also expanded the range...
...time. Eventually the center would like to enhance the influence of the humanities in the same way that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study boosted the reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such geniuses as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr. Says Director Charles Frankel, a philosopher: "We want to stand up and show the power of the humanities." For Executive Officer William Bennett, Research Triangle Park is just the place to accomplish that goal. Says he: "The people here have sold not only an environment but a state of mind...