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...college students, would like to thank you for the frank, sincere and thought-provoking article. BARBARA M. BULLINGTON BUNNY Jo MYERS MOLLY J. TASKER Florida State University Tallahassee...
...circulation director of Look, able Vice President S. O. (for Samuel Oliver) Shapiro, 51, is a power. Onetime circulation boss of Macfadden Publications, Shapiro bubbles with ideas about how to sell Look and how to edit it. Last year, after Dana Tasker resigned as executive editor of TIME and became editorial director of Look (TIME, Jan. 26), President & Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles told Look's staff that Tasker would "be the top editorial executive of the company." Tasker believes that the editorial department should be completely independent and not a satellite of the circulation department. But "Shap" Shapiro...
Last week the difference gave Look a wholesale shake-up in its top editorial staff. Since President Cowles leaned towards Shapiro's view of how Look should be run, Tasker abruptly resigned. Into his place went an old Look hand, Dan Mich, 49, who had resigned in 1950 as executive editor of Look to become editorial director of McCall's (circ. 4,525,060). Because Cowles wanted "to give Mich a free hand in selecting his assistants," Look's Executive Editor William Lowe and Managing Editor Les Midgley resigned with Tasker. New Editorial Director Mich, whose salary...
...JOHN) DANA TASKER resigned as executive editor of TIME to join Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look and Quick), where he will fill the new job of editorial director. Tasker, an Amherst graduate ('25) taught English and coached track at Deerfield Academy before he joined the Reader's Digest as an associate editor. He left for Newsweek, which he edited three years, joined TIME 15 years ago. He was named assistant managing editor in 1946 and executive editor in 1951. While on TIME, he has been editor of most of TIME'S departments at one time or another. Since...
Said Cowles Magazines' President Gardner Cowles in announcing Tasker's appointment: "He will be the top editorial executive in the company with responsibility for the proper functioning of the Look editorial department and the Quick editorial department...