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MORMALLY this space is devoted to the exploits and accomplishments of the men and women on the staff of TIME. But last week's announcement that Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson had been appointed editor in chief of Harper's (see THE PRESS) prompts us to reflect a bit on some of our alumni who are now working elsewhere in journalism. "Shnay" leaves with our gratitude for his contributions to TIME and with our best wishes for success in his new job. If we have special reason for believing that it will be a challenging one, it is partly...
...journalism fraternity: Paris Review Editor George Plimpton, former Saturday Evening Post Editor Otto Friedrich, onetime Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, Columnist Tom Wicker, and London Bureau Chief Anthony Lewis of the New York Times. Last week Cowles and Blair finally decided on a dark horse: TIME Senior Editor Robert B. Shnayerson...
...cover story represents a collaboration between Associate Editor Keith Johnson, an Army veteran and former National Guardsman who has reported from Viet Nam, and Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, an ex-Navyman who has long been fascinated by the judiciary and who started TIME'S Law section seven years ago. Johnson concentrated on the verdict, its impact and its implications. Shnayerson dealt with the history and legal ramifications of war crimes...
...present system. Karsten Prager of the New York bureau, who toured Car Manhattan's infamous Tombs detention house and North Carolina's progressive Wake Advancement Center, was struck by "the differences between what there is and what there might be." So was Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the cover story with the assistance of Contributing Editor James Simon and Researcher Erika Sanchez. "It seems more shocking and irrational in 1971 than ever before that these conditions can exist," says Shnayerson. "But the problems are enormous - the bureaucracy, the inertia of the administrators, the high cost of change...
Written by Contributing Editor Ruth Brine, and reported by both Ruth and Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the story was edited by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and researched by Virginia Adams. The idea was conceived when Ruth Brine moved to Manhattan's Upper West Side last fall. "I saw those rows and rows of motionless old people sitting all day long on the benches on the smelly traffic island that stretches all the way up Broadway," she recalls. "I also began to be aware that my friends were spending as much time discussing what to do about their parents...