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...saddened to report that Martha Duffy, one of the most talented and beloved members of our professional family, died last week at 61. She had worked at TIME for 37 years, half the life of the magazine, as a researcher, writer, critic and one of our first women senior editors...
...tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation." That was one of many reports that caught the eye of managing editor Henry Grunwald, who promoted her to senior editor. "She dazzled us with her sheer intelligence and her gentle, ironic smile. We knew that we had a treasure in Martha and that we had to set her on her course...
...writing fell short of her standards. Her praise for sharp thinking was warm and inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...
...Details. A definition: by "men's magazines," I don't just mean magazines that for whatever reason have a primarily male readership--SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, say, or Rolling Stone or Juggs. I mean magazines that seek to define a masculine life-style, that are about maleness in the way that Martha Stewart Living is about an unnatural hunger for order...
...political history," she says. "We elect women like there was no tomorrow."Photo Courtesy of Martha StewartAVERY W. GARDINER '97, who hopes to occupy the White House someday, speaks with a current occupant, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON...