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Lapham, 45, a cerebral ex-newspaperman from San Francisco, tried to retrain Harper's eye on important public issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from...
...know anything about a board meeting Sunday," he says, "but I do feel that the story will break within a week." Obviously another ex-newspaperman...
...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...
...newspaperman, Larsen was born in Boston in 1899. He attended public schools there and went on to tax-supported Boston Latin School. The experience gave him a lifelong interest in public education and, he once said, "a sense of gratitude for what the American public school system did for me ... [It] translated into reality the American ideal of equality and opportunity...
Donovan came to Time Inc. with a magna cum laude degree from the University of Minnesota plus an Oxford degree acquired as a Rhodes scholar. He put in five years as a newspaperman in Washington, then most of World War II in the U.S. Navy. A 1945 personnel memo details these and other qualifications, going on to note that "young Donovan is a handsome gentleman of 31, with blue eyes, a level gaze, a deep voice and a serious manner enlivened by a quick smile." None of that description needs to be changed today, except, inevitably and unbelievably...