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...Leah Gordon has probably checked a few million or so herself in the course of her distinguished career with the magazine. A philosophy major at Bryn Mawr College, she joined TIME in 1960; during the next 20 years she worked in virtually every editorial department of the magazine. Today she is in charge of the magazine's more than 50 men and women who are reporter-researchers...
...often excruciating precision of the TIME researcher, a quality of mind that requires meticulous, caring, even reverential, attention to fact. Every week a cadre of researchers puts every word of the projected issue of TIME through the most demanding wringer of verification. Estimates TIME Chief of Research Leah Shanks Gordon: "We check nearly 2.5 million words a year...
...contributed to the story must also review it, word for word. Errors, of course, still do occur, often brought to our attention by readers; in each case the cause is traced and discussed to ensure that that mistake-or that kind of mistake-will not be made again. Says Gordon: "Because we are a newsweekly, because we must provide more detail, more analysis and more background, research becomes an important arm to making a story successful." We can give that statement what we call a ringing red check...
...economy. Both Kaufman and Wojnilower changed their forecasts because they could no longer foresee a robust economic recovery that would revive business-loan demand and boost the cost of money. Yet, without a strong reversal of business fortunes, the stock rally is likely to be short-lived. Says Monte Gordon, chief of research for the Dreyfus Corp. group of mutual funds: "Markets can respond to interest rates' coming down, but they can mount a sustained upward move only when corporate earnings improve. This is the food on which bull markets feed." Gordon believes that the Dow will rise only...
Such perceptions spare readers the task of puzzling them out. They short-circuit thought, plugging directly into prefabricated images. And they are by no means limited to young characters. The narrator of The Body, Gordon Lachance, shares King's age, 34, and occupation: he is a "bestselling novelist who is more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine...