Word: hedley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedley Donovan, 65, recently retired editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to serve as a Senior Adviser to the President. Donovan will have broad responsibilities in both domestic and foreign affairs and will report directly to the President. Veteran Washington observers could not recall any exact precedent for such an assignment...
Beginning as a writer on FORTUNE in December 1945, Donovan moved up to managing editor less than eight years later. In Hedley Donovan 1959 he was appointed editorial director of Time Inc. and in 1964 editor in chief...
...years, only two men have served Time Inc. as editor in chief. The first, Henry R. Luce, founded this company. His successor, Hedley Donovan, gave it a second generation of editorial growth. On June 1, he retired from the company...
Time Inc. has a long tradition of separating editorial responsibilities and business management. The editor in chief reports not to the chairman or president of this company but to the board of directors, which can exercise no immediate editorial supervision. Hedley Donovan's immense authority -sometimes delegated, never diluted-has kept that tradition inviolate. But, while it was unthinkable to poach on his editorial territory, his own profound judgment in noneditorial matters was often called upon...
...invasion of Viet Nam by China reminds me of the things Vice Premier Teng said in his interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan: "China is quite poor." Apparently, nations are never too poor to wage war and destroy. What a folly...