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News Editor for This Issue: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Night Editors: Kristin A. Goss '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Editorial Editors: J. Andrew Mendelsohn '87 John N. Ross '87 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Feature Editors: Shari Rudavsky '88 Thomas J. Winslow '87 Sports Editor: Jonathan F. Putnam Business Editor: John P. Siracuse '87 Copy Editor: Chrystia A. Freeland...
William Maxwell, novelist and former New Yorker fiction editor, is reluctant to talk about the magazine; but after saying that the "subject has been done to death," he adds "almost," and pages of anecdotes follow about Harold Ross, James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs and Maxwell's "three wonderful writers all named John: John O'Hara, John Cheever and John Updike...
...world's largest industrial company, and Electronic Data Systems, the biggest computer-services firm. But the marriage of the two giants has not been completely harmonious. From the beginning, there have been predictable problems in integrating EDS's data services into GM's far-flung operations. Worse, EDS Chairman Ross Perot, who is now GM's largest stockholder (11.3 million shares) and a member of the board of directors, has become a burr in Smith's side. Perot has publicly sniped at the automaker's management for its isolation, resistance to change and indulgence in old-boy perks like chauffeured...
...very familiar in total with our business." As for charges that GM gives its executives excessive perks, Smith retorted that Perot's office at EDS in Dallas "makes mine look like shantytown. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall. Nobody runs around saying, 'Get rid of Ross's office...
News Editor For This Issue: Matthew A. Saal '87 Night Editors: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Kristin A. Goss '87 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 Sports Editors: Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '89 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Photo Editor: D. Jean Guth '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse '87 Copy Editor: Julie E. Gibbons...