Word: markel
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DIED. Lester Markel, 83, longtime Sunday editor of the New York Times (1923-64) who expanded and diversified coverage; of cancer; in Manhattan. Under Markel's direction, the Sunday department added separate magazine, book review, drama and travel sections. Markel was proudest of having created "The Week in Review" section, which, he said, "put the week's events in perspective." Markel expanded that concept as editor and moderator of the public television show News in Perspective...
When now retired Sunday Editor Lester Markel once com plained to Ochs about a steamy double murder the Times was re porting closely, the patriarch explained: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...