Word: writer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writer Andrew Bergman's cockamamy script would have it, Vince is currently involved in a complex scheme to prevent an international monetary crisis. Runaway inflation is a terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon wants nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main...
Beginning as a writer on FORTUNE in December 1945, Donovan moved up to managing editor less than eight years later. In Hedley Donovan 1959 he was appointed editorial director of Time Inc. and in 1964 editor in chief...
Succeeding Donovan as Time Inc.'s editor in chief is Henry Grunwald, Viennese-born and TIME-nurtured. Grunwald began working for The Weekly Newsmagazine as a copy boy in 1944, while still an undergraduate at New York University. The following year he became a writer, advanced to senior editor -the youngest ever-at age 28 and to managing editor in 1968. After a nine-year tenure, during which the magazine changed considerably, he was appointed one of two corporate editors...
William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...
Cousteau's documentary films on the sea have introduced the wonders of marine life to people around the world. A marine explorer, international environmentalist, writer and filmmaker, his films have extolled the mysteries of nature's dynamics and warned against the potentially disastrous consequences of human carelessness toward life-sustaining biological systems. He co-invented the aqualung in 1943, and pioneered submarine color photography, shooting the first pictures of the sea's twilight. His films have brought awards from Cannes, Paris, Venice and Hollywood. His works include the series "The Undersea World G. Jacques Cousteau," and books The Silent World...