Word: munro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experienced the special challenges of photographing a baby. Baby isn't very helpful. But when such a photograph is needed for the cover of TIME, the challenges grow exponentially. First, the professional photographer, unlike the parent, has to find a baby. This week's cover photographer, Gordon Munro, consulted Marge McDermott, a New York City talent agent for the carriage set, and told her exactly what he wanted: "A baby who seems to be almost newborn but is also beginning to look like everybody's idea of a baby. And I want to look at as many...
...Time Inc. is leaving forest products. Last week, at the company's annual shareholders meeting, President J. Richard Munro announced a plan to form a separate company by splitting off the forest-products operations from the firm's other businesses. If stockholders approve the plan, which would give them shares in the new forest-products company, at a special meeting later this year, the move could be completed by year...
...spin-off should make it easier for each company to satisfy its own considerable capital needs. Said Munro: "At the moment, we inevitably have a continuing tug-of-war between widely different needs that have to be evaluated from distinctly different perspectives...
...major U.S. corporation on its own. Last year that part of Time Inc. accounted for $1.1 billion, or 32% of the company's $3.6 billion in revenues. If it had been an independent company, the forest-products operation would have ranked 270 on the FORTUNE 500 list. Munro said in announcing the proposal that separation means that the "major parts of Time Inc. can become greater than the whole...
...Walter Isaacson. Reported by David Aikman/Peking and Ross H. Munro Washington