Word: spent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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 25% and will reach $125 million...
...played a major role in planning and supervising the construction of the new Time & Life Building, served as circulation director of FORTUNE, director of corporate research and development, London bureau chief for TIME and, since April 1968, publisher of FORTUNE. With it all, says Luce, "I've spent more years at TIME than in any other part of the company. It is, of course, the origin of the company, the first magazine, the great flagship of the group. It is very exciting to be back...
...standing there beside the backyard barbecue pit, swathed in an apron and holding a Manhattan on the rocks as he contemplates his prized swimming pool. That scene is increasingly rare. Though he still manages to swim before breakfast and before going to bed, almost all his waking hours are spent before congressional committees, at press conferences, or in one of the endless Pentagon meetings...
...What reader will have eyes for mild, muddled Myles when confronted with a clutch of scene stealers like these? Lou Doxiades: an amateur philosopher with the soul of a benign procurer who imports waiters from Athens for Boston restaurants. And Dr. Petkov: a Bulgarian scholar who has spent his life preparing, but not writing, a biography of Chester A. Arthur...