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...Griff it has been for much of Thomas Griffith's 45 years in the corridors of Time Inc. For the past twelve years he has been turning out TIME's Newswatch column. Readers who have come to know and respect the column's level-headed analyses of the press and its foibles will not be surprised to learn that the reader comes first in Griffith's mind. "I never considered it my role to defend the press," he says. "I start with the reader's curiosity and concern about the information he's getting. Sometimes this means explaining what...
Parmelee's session with the President was part of Odyssey Project, a joint endeavor of Time Inc. and the District of Columbia public schools. The program's participants discuss heroes in literature, then write profiles of Washington notables whom they admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project...
...program's purpose is to improve students' writing skills while at the same time introducing them to the world of publishing. Nearly two dozen Time Inc. volunteers work with the students. "I find the sessions are often as helpful to me as they are to the kids," says Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, who conducted workshops and edited several profiles when he was not covering George Bush on the campaign trail. "They tend to ask the fundamental 'why' questions that force you to go back and examine things you normally take for granted...
...where he played football, and got a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1974. He began his career with the blue- chip Manhattan law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, then worked as a money manager for the Ford Foundation and as an investment banker for James D. Wolfensohn Inc. At Wolfensohn, Powers put together several deals for Simon Keswick, the outgoing taipan...
...book is the first joint project between the magazine and Time Inc.'s Books Group, the third largest book publisher in the country. "By using TIME's ability to report quickly and thoroughly and our ability to get the words into a book format, we drastically shortened the normal publication schedule," says Kelso Sutton, president and chief executive officer of the Books Group. Gorbachev, distributed by New American Library, will soon be followed by a second TIME book: a picture history of 1968, inspired by a cover story 2 1/2 months ago about the momentous events of a year that...