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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...
DANVILLE, KY., Pioneer Playhouse. Stanley Markel's new play, Pregnant Thought, follows a married couple, both writers, through a series of mistaken matings...
Unprecedented Changes. As executive editor Catledge assumes direct editorial charge of both the Sunday and the daily Times. The consolidation is as unprecedented as the title. Until last week, responsibility for the Sunday paper rested largely in the experienced hands of Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 70, who in 41 years at the job polished a product that some readers considered superior to the daily Times. Markel became a somewhat emeritus associate editor...
...replace Catledge as managing editor, Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger named Assistant Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, 51, who is better known outside journalism as Margaret Truman's husband than as the competent Timesman he has been for 21 years. Named Markel's successor as Sunday editor was Assistant Sunday Editor Daniel Schwarz, 56, who is accountable to Catledge...