Word: shepley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curator of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week "when period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists-Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch. Abbott. and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
This week, however, the letter is from the editors of TIME, because its subject is publishers-past, present and future. Our colleague Jim Shepley is leaving his post at TIME to become president and chief operating officer of Time Inc., TIME'S parent company. We are sad to see him leave the magazine where, as he says, "I have spent 27 of my professional years in journalism...
Starting in 1942 as a correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, Shepley later distinguished himself for wartime reporting in Europe and the Pacific and, in 1948, became the youngest Washington bureau chief ever. Nine years later, he was named chief of the U.S. and Canadian news service. Moving over to the business side in late 1960, he spent three years as assistant publisher of LIFE and another three as publisher of FORTUNE before returning to TIME as publisher. During his stewardship, TIME'S circulation has grown 20% to its present 5,300,000, and advertising revenues have climbed...
...department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week, "When period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists -- coolidge, for ex-example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bull-finch, Abbott, and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
...JAMES R. SHEPLEY...