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...vice president and chief of the TIME-LIFE News Bureau in London. Henry III sent a memo to the Time Inc. staff last week, quoting from his father's will: "Time Inc. is now, and is expected to continue to be, principally a journalistic enterprise and, as such, an enterprise operated in the public interest." In the memo, he thanked staffers for their notes of sympathy: "So many of you have told me that he meant more than anyone except your own fathers, or that he was like a father to you, or that in a sense...
Perhaps the classic case of Harry's single-mindedness is recounted by retired TIME Vice President Allen Grover: "World War II had just begun. Staffers scurried back from afar. I was in early and was summoned at once to the boss's office. He was writing a memo on something about TIME's National Affairs section and stunned me by ignoring the war completely. When I tried to bring it up, he gave me some chore and dismissed me. Later that day I got one of his screeds on copy paper saying, 'Al, see me Friday...
...Kennedy family describes as "a long era of negotiations." Through its agents, the family took a closer look at Manchester's first manuscript and realized that much more was wrong than a few factual errors. Pamela Turnure Timmins, Jackie's secretary, drafted a three-page memo detailing passages that Jackie found objectionable. Bobby met with Manchester at his Senate office in Washington and at his Virginia home the following month to discuss changes. Kennedy agents told Look that they had to approve the articles, but Look rejected the suggested changes. Through the autumn, Kennedy advisers met frequently, zeroing...
Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chair man Gardner Ackley, who prepared the memo, are by no means the only offi cials to believe that the President should make up his mind on the tax issue as soon as possible...
...hasn't worked out that way because every agency has developed its own interpretation of the Kennedy memo. The Defense Department generally lets professors hold on to patents with commercial applications; the National Institute of Health does just the opposite...