NC gets personal

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Dec 9 10:13:06 PST 2001


Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >The Time of Luce was in
> >many ways worse than that of AOL Time Warner, no?
> >
> >Doug
>
> Then again, onetime Fortune writer Dwight Macdonald notes in his
> correspondence that Henry Luce preferred hiring leftists for his editorial
> staff because he felt that Republicans couldn't write.
>

I haven't looked at _Time_ in decades, but I suspect most people on this list have no real idea of how absolutely vicious _Time_ was under Luce. I would think the current _Time_ couldn't be any worse. And as disgusting a paper as the Chicago Tribune is now, it certainly is superior to the Tribune of the wacky Colonel.

Carrol

P.S. Confession: As a high-school student I learned the power of subordination in writing by reading the Colonel's weekly column in the Sunday Tribune. Aping (or trying to ape) his style was useful training.



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