Word: newsweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Separated. Joseph Alsop, 62, starchy, patrician, syndicated Washington columnist and brother of Newsweek's Stewart Alsop; and Susan Mary Alsop, 54; after twelve years of marriage, no children...
What is a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn doing posing as a hard-eyed Arab on the cover of Newsweek? "We couldn't find any Arabs," explained Manhattan Talent Agent Steve Kaye. His firm had been commissioned to find a model for a photo that would show an Arab holding a gasoline hose. The theme: "Arab Oil Squeeze." Kaye volunteered his own bearded, dark visage and even provided a headdress−one that he had bought, of course, in Israel, where his brother lives on a kibbutz...
...Newsweek to know I'd been bar-mitzvahed 20 years ago?" asks Kaye, 33. "All they knew was that they needed an Arab fast and I looked like one in the picture" To get the perfect shot, Kaye and photographers took over a gas station in Queens. "A crowd formed as soon as we got there," recalls Kaye, "and I was afraid the Jewish Defense League might show up." His caftan wasn't blown until one of Kaye's clients in radio saw the magazine and announced to his listeners, "That's no Arab, that...
...passes herself off as representing. It is true that the two of us had a lot in common. I, too, counted down Friendship-7, agonized with Beaver Cleaver and compared SAT scores. Both of us recall much of our past as photos from Life and the cover of Newsweek. Not surprisingly, many of her recollections -- if not her conclusions -- from growing up in Durham, New Hampshire, are similar to mine, from growing up in suburban Philadelphia...
...standard joke is that a Nieman isn't good for anything more than membership in a Harvard club and a job at Time (Newsweek) magazine. The joke speaks both to the striking loyalty which most Niemans feel to the program and also to its reputation as a job improvement mechanism...