Word: edition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate it as a great personal achievement to be offered the responsiblity for an important magazine. Actually, however, your sleepless nights over the typewriter on dex were supposed to lead you to writing the Great Work, to be the next Faulkner of the American novel, you thought. To edit a magazine leaves your life's work at a few well-reading periodicals. You've been made to feel you want to do just exactly what you knew you didn't want...
Luce dashed off an enraged memo complaining that TIM was treating the election like a "rather minor circus episode." But Matthews ignored him. Finally, Managing Editor Manfred Gottfried told Luce either to edit the section himself or to stay away. "Luce announced that he would exile himself," writes Elson, "but he continued to fulminate from a distance." Matthews offered to resign as NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, but Luce asked him to stay on. Later, he became managing editor...
...MINUTES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS News Correspondents Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace edit a biweekly magazine of the air. The show includes TV documentaries, profiles, features on the arts, and commentaries by guest newsmakers and newscasters. Premiere...
...diaries, explains Towne 40 an occasional contributor to The New Yorker, were divinely disclosed to him as objects of my imagination," so that he had to do was edit them. Although badly in need of cutting they were easy to edit: God had thoughtfully turned out copies of them in every known language and had recorded them by every conceivable means, including invisible ink and skywriting. "I have relied almost entirely upon the typewritten version," Towne reports, "because I find Gods penmanship indecipherable...
...Self-Editing. A lesser and looser work than The Master and Margarita, it reports slyly the absurd difficulties of a young writer resembling Bulgakov. Maxudov, the hero, is a staff member for a journal called the Shipping Gazette, and he writes a novel for the same reason that prisoners make their ropes out of bedsheets. He reads it to his literary friends. Awful, they say. He steals a revolver and determines to edit himself. As he is gluing his nerve together, the editor of a magazine bursts in and offers to serialize the novel (which is called Black Snow...