Word: hedley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement came after continuing losses-some $30 million since 1969. In the face of soaring costs, why did LIFE continue to publish for four unprofitable years? At a valedictory staff meeting, Hedley Donovan, editor in chief of Time Inc., gave the reason: "We persevered as long as we could see any realistic prospects, within a reasonable time span, of a turn-around in LIFE's economy." Those prospects were extinguished this fall with melancholy prognoses for decreased circulation and advertising pages. These, coupled with postal-rate increases (amounting to 170% over five years) made the end inevitable...
...Home" when ecology was an uncelebrated concept. A scrupulous series, the World's Great Religions, was praised by scores of religious leaders. These great series became the cornerstones of a major publishing phenomenon, TIME-LIFE Books. These continuing volumes now assure LIFE a measure of survival. In Hedley Donovan's phrase, "LIFE will go on in many ways and places, not least in its influence on the other magazines and books of Time...
...hand in Miami Beach were Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, Senior Editor Jason McManus, and the Nation staff of 16, who were intent on assessing an event that has no real parallel in all the world's governments...
...testimony, Hedley Donovan, editor in chief of Time Inc., contended that mass-circulation, general-interest magazines in particular "play a unique and indispensable role in American education and political processes" and must be allowed to be "vigorously competitive and reasonably profitable." Unlike local newspapers, Donovan said, magazines "have done much to create national audiences. They enrich our national dialogue. But the present quality, competitiveness and openness of the magazine field cannot be long sustained if profits do not improve beyond current levels...
TIME's Man of the Year was interviewed by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald last week at the White House. With them were Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. Excerpts...