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- May 24, 1993: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 24, 1993 Kids, Sex & Values
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 6
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- <p> There have been some fundamental changes throughout our magazine
- over the past several years, culminating 13 months ago in a
- new organization of the news on our pages. One feature of the
- change was a new section, The Week, which summarizes events
- of the preceding week with brief accounts, graphics and commentaries.
- It instantly became one of the magazine's most popular parts.
- This week, in a less dramatic way, we're still in the change
- business, giving The Week a different look and bright new features.
- While maintaining its summarizing function, The Week will also
- absorb the exclusives, inside intelligence and trend-spotting
- items from the Grapevine page.
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- <p> More intriguing than the alterations, perhaps, is the man carrying
- them out. One of managing editor Jim Gaines' first steps after
- taking over TIME last February was hiring benign-looking Kurt
- Andersen, 38, editor of Spy magazine. If you haven't heard,
- Spy is the quintessence of witty and savage satire. It has not
- spared our proprietor, Time Warner, nor most other major American
- institutions. Have we unleashed a bomb thrower? Not to worry.
- Andersen, a man of very many talents, is a former writer in
- TIME's Nation section who wrote cover stores on Lee Iacocca,
- Jesse Helms and the death penalty. He is committed to our straight-news
- mission, although he promises, in the TIME tradition going back
- to Henry Luce, "a certain amount of sass when appropriate."
- </p>
- <p> Like so many American humorists--Benny, Carson, Letterman,
- Keillor--Andersen was born in the nation's midsection, Omaha
- to be precise. At Harvard he characteristically shunned the
- campus daily, the Crimson, in favor of the anti-Establishment
- Lampoon. After graduation, Kurt spent five years as a writer
- with NBC-TV's Today show, then wrote for TIME for five years.
- In 1986 he created Spy with E. Graydon Carter. Throughout the
- Spy years Kurt was never a complete defector; he remained our
- architecture and design critic.
- </p>
- <p> Why leave Spy? Andersen now wants to "spend most of my time
- writing." As editor at large, he will supervise The Week and
- continue with design pieces but devote particular atten tion
- to his new "Spectator" column. Inspired by the approach of other
- columnists to political subjects, Andersen seeks to cover the
- entertainment and culture beat with flair by blending commentary,
- reporting and original insights. We're very glad to have him
- back.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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