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Last week the Time Inc. Magazine Co. announced the launch of a new publication aimed at dispelling that confusion. Called ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, it will cast an informative cultural net over the most notable new offerings in the realms of movies, television, videocassettes, recorded music and books, all reviewed and rated (from A to F) by the magazine's own critics as well as by guest reviewers. The new publication will also include articles on entertainment and culture, but it will concentrate on the fundamentals rather than on personalities, thus avoiding conflicts with the company's highly successful PEOPLE magazine. ENTERTAINMENT...
...make its debut in February, has been two years in the planning. It is expected to start life with a circulation of 500,000, mostly subscribers, and hopes to grow to 1 million before turning a profit in four years. Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith estimates the cost of the launch at $30 million after taxes. The magazine is the company's first major start-up venture since TV-CABLE WEEK, a listings guide for cable-company subscribers, folded after just five months in 1983. Another Time Inc. magazine project, PICTURE WEEK, was tested in 1985-86 but never launched...
Programs like the Galileo probe to Jupiter and the Hubble space telescope have been delayed more than three years since the Challenger explosion because NASA never planned on using conventional rockets to launch them...
...Senate Banking Committee also voted to launch its own investigation into HUD operations during the Reagan Administration, joining two House panels already scrutinizing allegations of mismanagement, fraud and influence-peddling at the multibillion-dollar agency...
...charge of the all-important fundraising wing of the University is Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50, a former dean of the College. Glimp's job should soon become considerably tougher as Harvard prepares to launch the most ambitious fundraising campaign ever waged by a university...