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...editorial-board colleagues last Friday, Frankel joked, "Let me be the last to tell you. The rumors are true." A 34-year veteran of the newspaper, Frankel is well regarded by newsmen and is close to Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 60. He is described as a cautious editor unlikely to make drastic changes in the newspaper. His two chief deputies will be holdovers from the Rosenthal era: Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, 62, who is being promoted to managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, 62. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jack Rosenthal, 51 (no relation to Abe), will...
...Rosenthal returned to New York City as metropolitan editor and moved to overcome the long-standing criticism that the Times slighted local news for national and international affairs. Says Gay Talese, a former Times reporter who chronicled the newspaper in his book The Kingdom and the Power: "He brought prestige back to the New York staff...
Rosenthal climbed quickly: to assistant managing editor in 1967, the top job of managing editor in 1969 and the newly created post of executive editor in 1977. At the helm of the newspaper, he stressed good writing, brought such fiefs as the Washington bureau and the Sunday staff under his control and, in landmark cases like the 1971 publication of the Pentagon papers, became a strong crusader for the press's First Amendment rights...
Rosenthal guided the newspaper away from its stodgy image by emphasizing a broader range of lively feature reporting. Beginning in 1976, the Times introduced sections on entertainment, living, home and science. The changes attracted both advertisers and readers (current weekday circ. 1,035,426). Veteran Times Correspondent and Editor Harrison Salisbury insists that Rosenthal "did not like the four-section paper--he fought it tooth and nail. But when the die was cast, he threw himself into it with enthusiasm and inventiveness." Says Rosenthal: "We were on the way out of business. What I had to do was change...
...putting his stamp on the paper as long as such key Rosenthal lieutenants as Gelb and Greenfield remain in place. Both, however, face mandatory retirement in less than three years, enabling Frankel to select his own deputies from a younger cadre of Times-men. Among the candidates: Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney, 43; Foreign Editor Warren Hoge, 45; and Metropolitan Editor John Vinocur, 46, who is expected to become editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, which is partly owned by the Times...