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- <title>
- July 22, 1991: from The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 2
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- <p> If you are an avid reader of our masthead, you have surely
- noticed the name Edward L. Jamieson. Appointed assistant
- managing editor in 1969 and executive editor in 1976, Jamieson
- has been a top editor of TIME longer than any other person, with
- the exception of our co-founder Henry R. Luce. Most recently,
- Ed has presided with great distinction over our "back-of-the-book"
- sections, the departments that deal with the sciences, culture
- and society. Having succeeded in managing a major transformation
- of these sections, he has now decided to retire. The occasion is
- a significant milestone in the history of this magazine.
- </p>
- <p> Jamieson arrived here from Massachusetts in 1954, when
- TIME was 31 years old. He polished his craft over nearly four
- decades, writing and editing in every section, acting as
- managing editor on countless occasions and, by example and firm
- prodding, nurturing the talents of several generations of staff
- people.
- </p>
- <p> In many ways, Jamieson personifies what is best about
- TIME: his integrity and respect for the English language are
- enviable, as is his erudition. Ed was a writer in the Nation
- section in 1961 when he was called on to produce the Man of the
- Year cover story on John F. Kennedy. Versatility being another
- Jamieson trait, the next year he wrote an equally fine Man of
- the Year story on Pope John XXIII.
- </p>
- <p> A voracious reader whose interests range from Peanuts to
- the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican's annual equivalent of
- Who's Who, Ed is known for lugging 30 or more books to his
- vacation home on Cape Cod every summer. He is known as well for
- a dry, sharp wit that belies his normally self-effacing style
- (he once wryly observed that the return of a former, imposing
- managing editor would be "the Second Coming").
- </p>
- <p> We truly cannot let this man out of our clutches, so I am
- happy to report that following a sabbatical on Cape Cod with his
- wife Ann, Ed will return as consulting editor in charge of
- special issues and projects. "I've had the good luck," he says,
- "doing what I really enjoy--watching what goes on in the world
- and helping to make sense of it, at least in print. I hope to
- keep on doing both, but have a little more time for simpler
- things too." Jamieson's good luck is also ours, and we're
- grateful for that.
- </p>
- <p>-- Henry Muller
- </p>
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