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...Village weekly that resembles the Village Voice (where Breasted once labored), to a coveted staff job on the Newspaper, a dignified daily that is unmistakably the New York Times. Sarah's boss is City Editor Ron Millstein, an endearingly manic liar who does not resemble Times Editors Arthur Gelb and A.M. Rosenthal. After spending weeks trying to find city hall by subway, committing Pulitzer-worthy sex with an undercover policeman and discovering the delights of midtown restaurants, she stumbles upon the Big Story: how a presidential candidate tried to have his homosexual lover bumped...
...Weinraub still reports for the Times from Washington, or at least he did before this book came out. His story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor, the experienced but unpolished Jewish city editor, the polished but unassertive Wasp foreign editor, the assertive...
...Council on Foreign Relations considered 68 candidates, including Leslie Gelb, the national-security correspondent for the New York Times, and Stephen Rosenfeld, the Washington Post's deputy editorial-page editor. Both withdrew. The runner-up: James Chace, the magazine's managing editor since 1970. Said Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign Relations: "Hyland has outstanding experience, intellect and objectivity...
...more straightforward level, the mainstream media enjoy uncomfortably close links to the military establishment. Leslie Gelb became to the New York Times national security correspondent after serving in the Pentagon during the Johnson Administration, he left the paper to occupy a high national security position for President Carter and was replaced by reporter Richard Burt, who now serves as Director of Political Military Affairs in the Reagan State Department...
George Rathjens, chairman-elect of the Council for a Lisable World: Robert Hass, deputy for European Affairs in the State Department, and Leslie Gelb. New York Times National Security Correspondent and former State Department official in the Carter Administration, also addressed the delegates, most whom were pro-freeze...