Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand, that's why I am so reluctant to say farewell to Jack Haire, who has been TIME's publisher since 1993. Jack is leaving TIME to become president of the Fortune Group, overseeing the business affairs of our kid-brother business magazine, FORTUNE, and its kid brother, YOUR COMPANY. Jack and some part of the rest of the world view this as an elevation. I'm free to disagree. But then, Jack's my friend. He is going on to these so-called greener pastures because of the terrific job he's done here at TIME. He's increased...
...important to say that Jack's success comes to him because Leo Durocher was wrong: Nice guys do finish first. Among media and advertising professionals, Jack is admired for his passion for his customers, his love of TIME and for the bond of his word. Across the staff at TIME, there was a similar respect, built on the generosity of affection Jack showed toward the people who worked with him. His sincerity and thoughtfulness seemed unexpected of a person in such a big job. But it was one of the things that makes Jack special...
There's another thing, too, that Jack's wife Kathy says is his most enduring and endearing quality: his humility. "It's what I noticed about him first when I met him 20 years ago. This was a guy who had his head screwed on right. He knew what was important and what wasn't. And he came with this deep humility, this deep respect for other people...
...Jack also acts as a translator for other Cheyenne in trouble, and makes friends with Sitting Bull and his people; through these experience, Jack exposes the tragedy of the Native American experience during this time with dignity and understanding. Some of the more amusing episodes in Jack's life have to do with a certain woman named Amanda, and Jack's attempts to turn his roughness into charm in order to win her. Through it all, Jack admits his mistakes gracefully and keeps his mind open to people very different from himself, while exposing the true natures of other people...
Novelist Thomas Berger responds to continuing fascination with the American West by distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that...