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...metamorphosing in the politically nurturing setting of the White House into a right-wing, conservative speech writer under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The American media was a second protective womb for the developing organism on CNN's "Crossfire" and in such conservative papers as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which voiced expressions of support for Barry Goldwater and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Finally, one week ago, the moment of emergence arrived, and out came Patrick J. Buchanan as New Hampshire's victorious Republican candidate...
...found that journalism suited him--he could pick fights in print and not with his fists. He became an editorial writer on the Midwest's most conservative paper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing blood-and-guts editorials in favor of Barry Goldwater and against the Great Society, decrying communism and the Red Menace. He pictured himself as a young version of the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler--"standing flat on his feet, swinging for the belly," as he wrote home at the time...
Arthur joined TIME in 1985 after working at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he served as both the editor and the art director of that paper's Sunday magazine. Word people and design people are not supposed to get along, but Arthur seems to co-exist with himself quite happily. He is famous in our halls for the very good headlines he comes up with for covers and page layouts and the very bad puns ("The Vegas Notion" for our recent cover on the Nevada gambling mecca) that he sticks in as dummy copy...
CAREER:Editorial Writer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1962-64, then assistant editorial editor 1964-65; executive assistant to Richard Nixon at his law firm, then White House special assistant and speechwriter 1969-72, special consultant 1972, a post he held throughout the first few months of Gerald Ford's term. Columnist, radio and television commentator and panelist, beginning in 1975; director of communications, Reagan White House...
...Journalism, he began his career as an editor and designer at a weekly newspaper in his native St. Louis. He eventually focused on design because, as he puts it, "What I enjoyed most was putting the pieces together." He was graphics editor for the now defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME in 1985. Among the cover-subject designs he is proudest of are the sun ("Great Ball of Fire") in July 1989 and White House chief of staff John Sununu ("Bush's Bad Cop") in May 1990. If you haven't already figured it out, Arthur...