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...life. An American Note may simply relate a funny or poignant incident, but it usually has some special significance. It may be a minor vignette or a brief comment on a major event; it may underscore the important or puncture the absurd. "The ideal item," says Nation Editor Jason McManus, "contains a moral, or a quality of fable, or the nucleus of some atom of the national mood...
...other Nation assignments (he is the author of seven cover stories). A Harvard alumnus ('63, magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...
...nearness to a central city, rate of growth and educational level were examined, four basic community types came into focus. A correspondent was then assigned to explore one example of each. "Our purpose was to map the suburbs as they exist today in three dimensions," said Senior Editor Jason McManus. Keith Johnson, who wrote the story from the material supplied by Harris, the correspondents and Reporter-Researcher Marguerite Michaels, found as he studied the returns that he too had "enjoyed the mythology, but I always wondered how accurate it really was. Not very accurate at all, as it turned...
...this public and private activity was beginning to surface long before the Son Tay raid, but Son Tay brought the whole effort into the open. "After this, I believe that nothing is impossible," says Mrs. Kevin McManus, secretary-treasurer of the National League. "It's a tremendous boost. People do care now." Many wives take the Son Tay raid as an overdue sign of concern on the part of the U.S. Government; they also feel that it will buoy the morale of their imprisoned husbands. No one, however, is quite sure just how the prisoners will find out about...
...Tuesday night, following the returns and formulating first plans for the section they would put together. By the time they assembled at the office on Wednesday morning, a News Service team had organized correspondents' overnight reports into a 27-page outline of the election results. Senior Editor Jason McManus then gave the week's assignments to a group of colleagues whose backgrounds are almost as varied as those of the winning candidates...