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Zuckerman, who has reinvigorated the Atlantic Monthly since buying it in 1980, interviewed several candidates for the U.S. News job over the past few months. But he insists that Coffey was always the first name on his list. While the search went on, Zuckerman brought in Harold Evans, 56, the former editor of the London Sunday Times, as "editorial director." Evans will return full time to his post as head of Atlantic Monthly Press but will continue to advise Zuckerman on U.S. News...
...seemed quite as shaken as William Shawn, 77, the cloistered, elaborately polite man who has presided over the magazine since 1952, when he succeeded the sometimes choleric founding editor, Harold Ross. On Friday afternoon last week, "Mr. Shawn," as he is invariably called, slowly walked down the staircase from his 19th-floor office to the 18th floor, where staffers had assembled to hear the melancholy news. Standing on a stairwell landing, his voice wobbly with emotion, Shawn read from a single sheet of paper. After announcing the board's decision, he pointedly added that "the editorial staff...
However, Director Harold Becker does succeed in capturing the excitement of wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport...
...overwhelming response to the afternoon concert prompted. Yale officials to Schedule a repeat performance. Sunday, evening said Harold L. Sannels, the head librarian of the Yale Music Library...
...Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features screaming headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed editor of the separate Sunday Times, to run the daily edition; within 13 months, Murdoch sacked him. Like his predecessor, Murdoch confronted unions and threatened to shut down forever...