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That was a bit of an inaccuracy, since Sunday Editor Markel knows Gould quite well. "We're very good friends," mourned Markel. "At least I assumed we were." One final thought seemed to salve his feelings. "Gould didn't like Judy Garland, either...
...monthly TV program called News in Perspective premiered on New York's earnest educational TV station WNDT. It was a New York Times show all the way, starring the Times's autocratic Sunday Editor Lester Markel, and featuring the Times's Washington diplomatic correspondent, Max Frankel, and White House Correspondent Tom Wicker...
...Every time a set owner looks up, he sees somebody else from the New York Times," groused Gould in his column. "Mr. Markel's program had interesting intentions but, unfortunately, they were not realized in the slightest. The New York Times has everything to learn about doing news on television. The debut of the Times . . . was superficial and often trite . . . dull . . . disconnected . . . overdone . . . awkward...
...Times's editors are its most assiduous readers, and Reader Markel, for one, did not feel that the paper had lived up to its obligation to him-even though he runs his Sunday empire as a private preserve, in which the daily-staff members are considered half-castes. Was Gould's review fair? "I should think not," said Markel. "Everyone I know was amazed...
Five for One. Though he seems to be in a lonely minority, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 69, who also runs the News of the Week in Review, the Drama and the Book Review sections, somehow manages to ignore all those girls in hip-hugging scanties. "This magazine is governed by the complexion of the news," says Markel, and not by the tastes of the woman who needs a new foundation. "I edit for Markel. I print things that interest me." What interests the crusty, 40-year veteran are broad-stroked stories on important, reasonably current topics-desegregation, the Common Market...