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...been friends and colleagues for 35 years, but when Grosvenor took over the society and Garrett took charge of the magazine, they faced off over budget cuts, editorial control and their strategies for holding on to the society's 10 million members (please, not subscribers). To attract younger readers, Garrett, 59, wanted National Geographic to embrace the news and shed its reputation as a moss-backed wishbook where adolescent boys once made the acquaintance of bare-breasted women. A photographer and journalist himself, Garrett began publishing stories about the Exxon Valdez, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects...
...handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran editor Wilbur Garrett left staffers -- and readers -- wondering where the magazine might be headed next...
...Garrett's dismissal followed months of hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...
...houselights dim in the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, the ! ringmaster's voice rattles the rafters: "Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Producer Kenneth Feld proudly presents the 119th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth! Take one! We're rolling! Lights! Camera! Action!" But wait -- what kind of show is this? Flickering lights in Ring 2 reveal a scene right out of a silent film. Two Keystone Kop cars have collided, while clowns dressed as cops and criminals strike up a dance...
Senior Co-Captain Jim Masland wanted to go out in style, with a big win against Eli Garrett Frank. Masland didn't win, but he had style in his crushing five-game loss to Frank, who has only lost one match in his collegiate squash career...