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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- Ed McCarrick is new in his job as my partner, associate
- publisher and advertising-sales director, but he's been part of
- the TIME family for a long while. His parents subscribed to the
- magazine when he was growing up, and he recalls that as a kid,
- when he finally had a surfeit of sports on TV, he turned to
- TIME. "I can't remember a time when I didn't read it, and after
- all these years, I'm still passionate about it."
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- These days, in the few hours when he's not working on
- TIME, reading TIME or talking about -- guess what? -- Ed turns
- his formidable energies toward golf (he has a three handicap),
- squash, tennis, the American Cancer Society and Catholic
- Charities in New Canaan, Conn., where he lives with his wife
- Patricia and daughter Sarah, 2. Since he joined this company as
- a trainee in 1973, Ed, 42, has worked in a variety of jobs in
- sales and marketing.
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- Ed thinks his new responsibilities come at an exciting
- point in the magazine's history. And characteristically he uses
- a sports analogy. "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's success began when TV
- went through its huge expansion. Fans wanted to know more than
- they could get from the screen. It's the same way with news now.
- CNN and the network and local shows bring readers up to a point
- of interest and quick knowledge. Then they turn to TIME for
- judgment and intellectual content."
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- Readers are also, he notices, getting a greater variety of
- voices and viewpoints from us than they did when he first picked
- us up. "I think that increasingly there's a special
- relationship between our magazine and the reader," observes
- McCarrick. "We've added a dimension beyond a recap of the week's
- news. We help make the country's perceptions happen. We're the
- week -- and more."
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- These changes, says Ed, help him in his ad-sales job. "The
- more we engage the issues that are on people's minds, the
- better," he says. Something seems to be working. In a lean year
- for the economy and advertising in general, we're going to have
- a better first quarter than we did in 1991. Maybe he can spare
- some golf tips too.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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