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Last week he concluded on a high note eight years as head of Time Inc.'s magazine division. Under his aegis that segment of the company experienced remarkable growth. MONEY, PEOPLE and DISCOVER were launched, LIFE was reborn, and Time Inc.'s magazine revenues tripled, to $1 billion. Of those achievements, Keylor is proudest of the successful birth of PEOPLE, which now has a circulation of 2.3 million. Says he: "When we set out to launch PEOPLE nothing like it had ever been tried before. You get a much greater sense of pride when you're breaking...
Keylor's successor is Kelso F. Sutton-not much of a musician but a tested manager. Sutton, who came to Time Inc. in 1961 after graduating from Harvard, served as TIME general manager before becoming a Time Inc. vice president and the corporate circulation director in 1972 and publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1978. He is committed to maintaining Arthur Keylor's heady pace. Citing his former boss's role as a leader in one of the country's "few remaining growth industries," Sutton says, "we intend to stay well ahead of the pack...
Such provocative prose is not usually found in blue-ribbon commission reports, which are generally filed away and forgotten. But this commission, set up by Carter in October 1979 at the recommendation of Retired Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, intends to have impact. Its chairman, former Columbia University President William McGill, admits that his 50-member group wants to "think the unthinkable." Says McGill: "We forecast for the '80s a very difficult era in which [U.S.] resources will not be equal to demands. If there is anything we have attempted to do, it is to force...
...that end, a group of U.S. physicians, headed by Harvard Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller, has organized International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc. They have recruited several eminent Americans, including Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith. They also got a strong endorsement from Chazov, who wrote: "The medical profession should more actively protest against the senseless policy of increasing arsenals of thermonuclear arms...
...founder and chairman of Jartran Inc., the U.S.'s newest truck rental company, constantly complains about "those damn Ryder people." That is hardly surprising because Ryder System Inc. is the nation's largest truck-leasing firm. But the grumbling executive is none other than James A. Ryder, 67, who founded Ryder in 1934 with a $35 down payment on a $200 secondhand Model A Ford truck...