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...school. She has a studio over a bagel shop on Broadway and has a growing reputation as a serious painter. They live well but not grandly in an apartment on the Upper West Side, where their two children go to private school. They socialize mainly with family and non-Timesmen. "When I moved to New York, I decided for my own mental health that my closest friends should be outside the Times. They can afford to be honest with me." This policy is not popular with colleagues who used to be close...
...description of her youthful obsession with walking through the Times corridor lined with portraits of the paper's Pulitzer Prize winners. Of the 21 pictures on the wall when Robertson started at the Times in 1955--she was 22 years old--20 of the portraits were of traditional, `Timesmen.' Only one, Anne O'Hare McCormick, was a Times woman...
...description, that Kennedy himself has called them "irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." Thus they offer a fertile field for investigative reporters, and more attempted exposés may be on the way. Nicholas Horrock and a team of fellow New York Timesmen are reported to be poking anew into the tragedy. Ladislas Farago, a writer on military and espionage subjects, is said to be preparing a long book about Chappaquiddick...
During the long shutdown, the 400 or so Times journalists reported to the office twice a week, covered their beats as best they could and worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...
Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...