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...currently finishing up a series of articles about the presidential candidates that will run jointly in Redbook, Women-Sport, American Home and Ladies Home Journal...
...course, an accident, but the inspiration of Sey Chassler, 56, editor in chief of Redbook. After state equal rights amendments went down to defeat in New York and New Jersey last November, Chassler got on the phone and set up a meeting with the editors of Ms., McCall's, Woman's Day, Glamour and Cosmopolitan to discuss running stories on the ERA timed for the Bicentennial. The group then wrote the editors at other women's magazines asking them to join the effort. Even Chassler was impressed by the concerted response in print. Says he: "Most...
...minor miracle that began when Viking bought an agentless, over-the-transom novel called Ordinary People did not stop there. Sales to Redbook, Ballantine Paperbacks, Reader's Digest Condensed Books and the Book-of-the-Month Club soon followed. Robert Redford's company has just bought the film rights. Judith Guest still does not have an agent, but with any luck she stands to collect something like half a million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three...
Despite the confusion, Rosovsky remains confident that the panels will finalize their proposals by the end of the year, in time for an intensive, summer-long effort to compile and distill a Rosovsky Redbook. Rosovsky says he hopes to be ready to offer his specific recommendations to the Faculty next fall and at the same time to complete a philosphical declaration, which he does not expect the Faculty to vote on. "One does not legislate exhortation. Whatever statement we make is not something to vote on. The actual legislation may be dry, but it must fit into some scheme," Rosovsky...
...explaining why he now wants an "overall vision," Rosovsky the dean becomes Rosovsky the scholar. The Redbook, he says, was "written at a high point in American confidence, at a high point of American history. At the end of World War II, the Pax Americana was just beginning to develop, and America had an enormous amount of self-confidence. It felt it was beyond doubt the best of all possible societies." But today, he adds, "it's a different world, with a lot of confusion and self-doubt. The values of liberal education are much in question...