Word: shnayerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan apartment dweller, Shnayerson found that his car and its insurance were getting too expensive to justify the trouble of hunting down parking places. "I took direct action," he says. "I drove the bloody thing to the Sanitation Department instead of leaving it on the street-one of maybe five or six citizens who made the effort that year. And on delivering the car, which was still in good running shape, I was met by disbelieving Sanitation men who tried to persuade me either to keep it, sell it, or give it to them. Then they saw I was serious...
Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the Essay on auto insurance, also received an adequate supply of free advice from colleagues who happen to be policyholders. He heard all the old tales of hardhearted claim adjusters, sky-high premiums, canceled insurance. Shnayerson sympathized, but when he recounted how he had solved his own automobile problems, he had the distinct feeling, he says, that no one was ready to follow his lead...
...Gavel Awards are given for "distinguished service" in communicating to the public "the basic values of our legal and judicial systems." TIME was cited for its regular coverage of these systems in the Law section - which is written by Robert Shnayerson and edited by Richard Seamon - plus a specific citation for the July 16, 1965 Essay, "The Revolution in Criminal Justice...
...Champ Clark and Marshall Loeb (this week's author), have taken turns at writing Essays. Among the other writers of one or more are Douglas Auchincloss, Joe David Brown, John T. Elson, Fred Gruin, Bruce Henderson, Robert Jones, William Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Ed Magnuson, Jason McManus and Robert Shnayerson. The principal researchers for the section are Mary Vanaman, Marion Pikul and Nancy Faber...
Besides adding to his, and possibly his wife's, legal education, writing THE LAW has had some side effect on Shnayerson. "I deal with my landlord much more confidently these days," he says, "and I am much more respectful of policemen...