Word: masthead
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With this week's issue, TIME welcomes its 14th managing editor: Walter Isaacson. He replaces James R. Gaines, who is moving up the masthead to become Time Inc.'s corporate editor. Gaines' experience as the only man ever to be the managing editor of three Time Inc. publications--PEOPLE, LIFE and TIME--makes him uniquely suited to oversee a wide variety of magazines as well as to advance Time Inc.'s growing interest in television. A man of many interests, Gaines is an accomplished classical pianist, the father of three (soon to be four) children, the author of one book...
...launch a self-described "fan magazine" about politics, a Rolling Stone for the arts of governance and electioneering. But here it is: George, a slick bimonthly named for our nation's first President. More memorable than the twee title is the name at the top of George's masthead: John F. Kennedy Jr., a former assistant district attorney who is now Manhattan's most glamorous editor in chief, Tina Brown and Anna Wintour notwithstanding...
Apparently Truth and Courage (Peninsula-style) mean calling a faggot a faggot. How very pleasant. How very thoughtful. How very enlightening. How very dignified. Lest one suppose that these instances of "affirming dignity" are the work of a rogue among the Peninsula staff, the masthead assures us that "The Council [the three highest ranking members of Peninsula] accepts responsibility for all unsigned pieces." The two wisecracks quoted above are both unsigned...
CLICK! POP! CHUNCK-UHN! Photography...It sounded so exciting. 'Reporter' also had a somewhat romantic ring to it--Woodward and Bernstein, Pentagon papers, Tom Wolfe, Americana. But 'photog' is even better. Like a reporter, you get a press pass complete with a photo, an official looking masthead, and the Crimson president's signature on it (even if the signature was forged by the managing editor, as mine is). You get to go to all the same newsworthy events and you don't even have to talk to anyone. Just chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn. When it's all over...
Careful readers of our masthead in this issue will notice a small typographical change that in fact signals a major one in Time Inc.'s publishing leadership: the title of CEO moves from chairman Reg Brack to president Don Logan...