Word: newsweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newsweek staffers were well into their editorial week last Thursday morning when Editor Kermit Lansner called his department heads together. In typical low-key fashion, he read them a short statement. He will relinquish operational control of the magazine this week, Lansner said, and after a vacation he will move into the newly created post of editorial director...
...Elliott act was indeed a hard one to follow. Enthusiastic and decisive, he presided over the magazine during a period of financial prosperity and editorial improvement. Lansner, 50, tried to maintain the magazine's quality in his quiet, cerebral way, but during his tenure, Newsweek, like many magazines, ran into a cost and profit squeeze and was forced to make cutbacks. Gripes grew as the screws were tightened. Finances aside, morale was hurt, according to several staffers, by what they saw as Lansner's slowness in making firm decisions...
...following journalists are the recipients of next year's Nieman Fellowships. Kevin P. Buckley of Newsweek: Wayne Greenhaw of the Alabama Journal. Montgomery Ala.; James O. Jackson of United Press International Moscow Peter A Jay '62 of the Washington Post: Michael R. McGovern of the New York Daily News: Edward C. Norton of The Record. Hackensack, N.J.; J. Michael Ritchey of KERA-TV. Dallas, Tex.; Carl W. Sims, editor of the Bay State Banner, Boston, William Stockton of The Associated Press, Los Angeles: Luther R. West of the State, Colombia, S.C.: Edwin N. Williams of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville...
...that area which Newsweek delicately calls "Transition," three deaths saddened the Harvard community. A physician from California was murdered three blocks from Mather House; the former manager of the Club Casablanca was shot and killed in his own establishment; and the founder of Cahaly's Market died of cancer...
...News nationwide sampling of political reporters and local politicians indicated as late as mid-January that Muskie would go to Miami Beach with 1,199 first-ballot delegate votes -only 310 short of victory. Newsweek noted with pride in January that it had pinpointed Muskie in a cover story more than a year earlier as "the man to beat." A TIME election survey in the Feb. 7 issue had Muskie leading in every region except the South and concluded: "He looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach." Other publications and pundits said roughly...