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Elmer Green, janitor of the Bow Street castle, has appeared on the cover of many parodies--Newsweek, Saturday Review, and even Lampy's Home Journal. Whether his kindly but aged face will meet the approval of America's fashion leaders remains to be seen...
...January 1953, he went to work as special writer for Newsweek, within ten months was managing editor. He rose to editor in 1956, seemed to have settled down for the first time in his career. But last week lean and peripatetic Denson, 55, moved once more. His new assignment: editor of the New York Herald Tribune. "Like coming home," said Denson, who in his 20s worked in the Tub's Washington bureau...
Denson, a gentle fellow beneath an irascible exterior, goes for splash in editing. At Newsweek he was generally credited with the makeup technique that makes lavish use of arrows, circles and boxes, as well as pictures that make their point by having Xs drawn across faces (to indicate a man has lost power) and the unsettling practice of blowing up a man's features by cutting off his ears or his hairline. Said Denson: "Naturally, I regret leaving Newsweek after so many satisfying years...
Last fortnight the Kennedys made the same sort of social foray to have dinner with Newsweek's Washington deputy bureau chief, Ben Bradlee, whose wife is a close friend of Jackie's. In the early hours of the morning after Inauguration Day, the President dropped by at a private party given by Columnist Joe Alsop, who lives in bachelor splendor in Georgetown among his parakeets and treasured antiques. Fortnight ago, the President went hiking with the Chattanooga Times's Pulitzer Prizewinner Charles Bartlett, whose wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took...
...Foundation is asking for its stock-especially since they have chosen to get along without Sam Newhouse, who offered to stake them to all or any part of the money. In the meantime, if someone with the right qualifications-an outsized wallet and a desire to keep on operating Newsweek in the Astor tradition-should come along, the Astor Foundation would presumably be all ears...