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This summer the journalistic demands of two political conventions plus a Summer Olympics have placed extraordinary logistical claims on the TIME staff members responsible for housing, food, transportation, security and working conditions in San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles. Time Inc.'s contingent at next week's Democratic National Convention will consist of more than 160 people, including 17 correspondents, 16 photographers, 20 editors, writers and reporter-researchers from TIME'S Nation section, and even 21 messengers for copy and film. Says R. Edward Jackson, deputy chief of correspondents, who is in overall charge of convention arrangements...
Washington Bureau Office Manager Emily Friedrich has served as a general coordinator of the San Francisco operation, negotiating TIME'S space at the Moscone Center convention site and arranging the venue for the 1,200-guest party that Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and the editors of TIME will give on the eve of the convention...
...food fads. But Tofutti is moving smoothly at chic Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and at Bloomingdale's in New York City. Haagen-Dazs, the designer-ice cream folks, will begin nationwide distribution to retailers later this month. On Wall Street, stock in Mintz's Tofu Time, Inc., which went public in December, has tripled in value and split...
During his first stint for Time Inc., as a writer for FORTUNE, Agee was assigned a story that let him weld his overheated rhetoric to a social theme: the lives of '30s sharecroppers in the South, with photographs by Walker Evans. Agee later appraised his own work as "a sinful book at least in all degrees of 'falling short of the mark.' " The critical and popular response reflected his view: published as a book in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men had sold only 600 copies by the end of the year. But Agee...
...Agee had a canny sense for self-preservation that almost, though not quite matched his talent for self-destruction. He was forever negotiating with a series of authority figures: God, Father Flye, Time Inc. Indeed, Bergreen concludes, Agee cast Time in the multiple roles of "his home, his school, his monastery," to the bewilderment of fellow employees like Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin and Robert Fitzgerald...