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...WEEKS AGO Newsweek's letters section carried a complaint from a reader claiming that the reviewer's disclosure of the plot of Frenzy had completely spoiled the picture. However, a good movie can't be destroyed by the revelation of its plot. If this were so it would be impossible to see the film again with the same satisfaction, whereas good movies--both Frenzy and The Other--improve on a second viewing...
...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...
...native New Yorker who was educated at Columbia, Harvard and the Sorbonne, Lansner was an assistant philosophy professor at Ohio's Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME...
...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...