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Associate Editor Gregory Jaynes, who wrote the story that accompanied Margie Brauer's appeal for understanding -- in which she complained mildly about her old eyeglasses and her need for dental work -- is not surprised by the burst of sympathy. Jaynes first read her missive last July, after it was passed...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Gregory Jaynes, Marguerite Johnson, James Kelly, Richard N. Ostling, Jay D. Palmer, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Evan Thomas, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh
The following letter, written this summer by a woman whose family farm was facing foreclosure, was addressed to the court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy proceedings. Time's Gregory Jaynes received permission to publish the letter, and he visited the family to report on the outcome of their case.
Story ideas often lead Jaynes down a circuitous path. "I may go into a town to write about a mean billy goat in someone's yard," he says, "and end up writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains...
Jaynes, who travels one week and writes the next, calculates that he has recorded enough mileage to have circumnavigated the globe nine or ten times. "I was about to say that is too much flying for anyone," he adds. "But the truth is, I am just about to get on...