Word: taber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While working on this week's Essay, That New Black Magic, a study of changing styles in superstition, Reporter George Taber canvassed his colleagues on TIME's editorial staff. By and large, he discovered, they were remarkably hesitant about admitting any belief in the occult. Not so the people who were involved with the Essay itself...
...Taber decided that even to work on such an Essay was begging for trouble. Sure enough, while he was reporting, he tried to interview a fortuneteller and she stood him up. When he invested a penny in a drugstore scale, he got back a card on which was printed his weight and the warning: "Watch your step...
After citing these energetic in-the-family examples of the exercise era, we hasten to add that some-well, many-of our staff are quite remote from this enthusiastic level. A number are in a category with Essay Reporter George Taber, a sometime exerciser whose weekend effort now consists of lifting the Sunday New York Times. Others are on a par with (but few as lucky as) the Bonn bureau's lean Burton Pines, who says, "Eating hard-frozen chocolate ice cream is all the exercise I get-and that's all I need." At any rate...
...George M. Taber, 25, is a 1964 graduate of Georgetown University, later studied at the College of Europe in Bruges, where he started to work for us as a stringer. His area of reporting is especially wide-ranging since he is assigned to Essay...
Died. John Taber, 85, longtime (1923-62) Republican Congressman, from New York's Finger Lakes district, an unyielding economizer who, as ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, consistently pared large chunks from Administration budgets, concentrating on "taberizing" New Deal legislation and foreign aid; of congestive heart failure; in Auburn...