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...same bright innocence struck TIME Contributor John Skow, who flew in to New York to spend four days with Ronstadt before writing the cover story. It was his first total immersion in the frenetic ambience of rock. An ex-TIME staffer-he wrote our cover story on J.D. Salinger (TIME, Sept. 15, 1961)-Skow lives sequestered with his family in a New Hampshire country house that he heats entirely by wood. Says he: "My main occupation is splitting billets of maple and birch." Being in good shape helped on his first interview with Ronstadt, when he suddenly found himself jogging...
Democrats on the Hill have often felt overlooked or even slighted by Carter. The incidents include the President's inviting the wrong Senators to an energy conference and petty but irritating gaffes by White House staffers. For example, Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston had a problem even getting a picture of Carter, although he is a supporter of the President. When a Cranston staffer called the White House with the request, he was told: "Sorry, you'll have to write a letter...
...gets to the office by 7 a.m., rarely departs before 9:30 at night, and rides his staff hard, sometimes demanding an answer minutes after he has assigned a complex question. The energy-plan team works twelve-hour days and fully expects to put in weekends. Says one staffer: "Every day here seems like a week...
Died. Oliver F. (Ollie) Atkins, 60, personal photographer to the President during Richard Nixon's White House years; of cancer; in Washington, Va. A longtime Saturday Evening Post staffer, Atkins traveled around the world with Nixon to record his presidency. But his most memorable photo was taken on Nixon's last day in office. Atkins shot for a long time before he got a picture of the Nixon family in which tears did not show-but strain still...
Felker is, above all, according to one longtime staffer, "a collector and a climber. If you're not important or have nothing interesting to say, Clay won't remember you, even if he's met you 20 times." Milton Glaser, the gifted designer who is responsible for New York's hip, hyped visual package, concedes that his longtime friend Felker is "very abrasive, very argumentative," but insists that "the chemistry works. It's all a great mystery." Bestselling Author Gail Sheehy (Passages), Felker's steady companion, considers him a fascinating talker but adds...