Word: shnayerson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROBERT SHNAYERSON...
...Kriss is the second TIME senior editor to be given top responsibility at a major magazine in the past six months. Robert Shnayerson was named editor of Harper's last June...
...Shnayerson's own biography could make story material for Harper's. He was born Robert Beahan, the son of a playwright and a distant cousin of Brendan Behan. His mother's second marriage was to a New York surgeon, Ned Shnayerson, who adopted him when he was eight. Shnayerson was subsequently shipped off to a succession of twelve schools. "It was," he recalls, "a miserable but interesting childhood, the kind that-if you survive-makes you stronger for having had it." After World War II service in the Navy (fleet oilers, submarines), he worked briefly...
...based in Seattle, and came to TIME in 1955. He soon quit because of "an eerie feeling I was in the wrong place," but returned in 1957. For five years he wrote the magazine's Education section. After surviving a libel suit arising from one of his stories, Shnayerson proposed a Law section for TIME.* He soon became the section's shepherd and one of the most respected legal affairs writers in the country. Appointed a senior editor in 1967, Shnayerson handled TIME'S Essay section for almost two years, has since edited Law. Education and Environment...
...Shnayerson speaks of his new assignment with TIME terseness and the hyperbole of a Harper's editor in chief: "Harper's must be vital. It is a great and important institution. We can't destroy its integrity, its intelligence. We can't become doctrinaire. We can't be predictably liberal or conservative. We must, and will be, full of surprises...