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...Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...
...York Magazine reported this week that Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, is also interested in buying The New Republic...
Free to Knock. Stone's 23-year-old editor, Jann (pronounced Yahn) Wenner, insists that he did not start the biweekly journal to grab a market, but simply to write about the things that interested him most. "We're not tied to anybody but ourselves - we're not promoting some body else's trip," he says. What interests Stone's writers is the whole rock world...
While Editor Wenner considers his paper part of the "youth revolution," he does not automatically accept every part of the youth scene. When young people and police clashed in Palm Springs, Calif., during an Easter vacation pop festival, Stone largely ignored the music in favor of first-rate reporting of the violence. It even had kind words for the cops, who "exercised amazing restraint, ignoring the blatant sexual activities, drinking and doping," until, finally, "the youthful vacationers asked for much of the trouble they got." Stone does not condone the kind of activity that got Singer Jim Morrison charged with...
They are: David J. Baker '66, Johnathan P. Goldman '66, Alan E. Lazar, Craig Donaldson, Frederick P. Schaffer '68, John T. Sackton '68, George M. Tiller '68, Henry W. Corbett '66, Lucy Moore '66, Virginia Wiesell David A. Link '66, Charlene S. Chang '66, Kate G. Wenner '69, Patrick J. McGinity '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and James S. Wylie...