Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrate the 50th anniversary of Newsweek, Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham hired not one hall but three of New York City's biggest. While most of the magazine's staffers celebrated at the Sheraton Centre hotel a few blocks away, a stream of stretch limos deposited celebrities at Lincoln Center for a biflorate black-tie dinner party at the New York State Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Hostess Graham reportedly busied herself with the tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger...
...Lampoon also makes money from its parodies of popular magazines like Newsweek and People; according to Rheault, a spoof of the Tolkien Ring trilogy, Bored of the Rings, still generates large royalties almost 15 years after it came out. In addition, the Lampoon has a separate endowment, administered by the group's board of trustees, which in 1981 declared income of almost $20,000 and assets of nearly $200,000. Karlock notes, however, that the Lampoon incurs considerable expense in subsidizing the regular issues of the magazine, as well as maintaining its nearly three-quarters-of-a-century-old building...
...Jane Bryant Quinn, who also writes for Newsweek, Ken Prewitt, a reporter for MONEY, and Evening News Correspondent Ray Brady, an alumnus of the business-oriented Forbes and Dun's Business Month who nonetheless tends to stress the impact of economic trends on the ordinary viewer. "He is much more consumer oriented than anyone else on the beat," says a senior CBS News executive. Contends Brady: "You can boil most economic phenomena down to whether you do or don't make money...
...plans to work eventually for Newsweek changed when the Wall Street Journal hired her in 1974 as a correspondent for their Washington Bureau. The editor assigned her to cover the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other regulatory agencies, an area in which, House admits, she did not want to become an expert, lest she be condemned to cover it for the rest of her career. She made the best of it by covering the human interest angle of her beat. When the FCC issued a regulation limiting the number of newspapers, television and radio stations a single family could...
...when House graduated from the University of Texas, she went to Europe for the summer without any plans for a job when she got back. As an undergraduate she had been the campus "stringer" for Newsweek, in addition to writing for the university daily. When she got back, she got in touch with Newsweek and was told that they didn't hire any reporters straight out of college, unless they wanted to work in the research department. They would be glad to hire her, but the editor warned that the research department was often a dead...