Word: timesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publications. If the papers do survive, said Lord Thomson of Fleet, chairman of the parent company, "the cost staff-wise, money-wise and frustration-wise will have been worth it." As for Fleet Street's reaction, Times executives dismissed it as sniping by envious competitors. Said one Timesman: "They're in a position of being overmanned and using 19th century technology, and they see a slimmed-down Times striding into the 21st century...
Thou shalt, Writer Gay Talese earnestly hopes, covet Thy Neighbor's Wife. That's the title of the latest book by erstwhile New York Timesman Talese, 47, who spent eight intriguing and, some suspect, interminable years in bedrooms, board rooms, massage parlors, even on a free-love farm, researching the changing sexual mores of middle-class America. The conclusions are so enticing that the book, with the publication date still six months away, already has earned nearly $4 million, including a $2.5 million film-rights agreement last week. Now that the sex epic has climaxed, Talese wants...
...editorial columns became what many students of the genre consider to be the country's best, or very close to it: lively, tightly reasoned, well informed and elegantly crafted. Indeed, the Post has for years generally outthought and outinfluenced the archrival New York Times, though veteran Timesman Max Frankel has livened that paper's orotund and occasionally murky editorial page since he became its editor...
...Page One lead story by Timesman R.W. Papple Jr. recounts the brief reign of Pope John Paul John Paul I, who died 19 minutes after the coronation ceremony in which he took the names of three predecessors. Elsewhere on the page is a photo of the Queensboro Bridge falling into the East River under the weight of 10,000 marathon runners. Another story, under the headline FALL SEASON THROWN INTO CONFUSION BY STUDIO 54 BLAZE; ISRAELI REACTION MUTED, tells how the disco burned to the ground after Owner Steve Rubell refused to admit the firemen because they were not chic...
...list of other people who weren't involved as well. It's also not true that we used the Plimptons' apartment to put the paper together. I ought to know. I was there all week." Freddy Plimpton denied that her husband wrote a brilliant parody of Timesman Red Smith's sports column. Similarly, New Times Senior Editor Kevin Buckley denied that he and Frankie FitzGerald collaborated on the parody of Reston, and Tony Hendra, a former National Lampoon editor, denied that he posed for the photo of the Pope...