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- , which as held in April. in
concert with the LBJ School of Public ffairs. the University of
Texas and fl>xa. Momhly magazine. as somewhat differ nt from
tho:e of the past in two wa}'S"
-Rather than embracing a subject national in scope. it focuse
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Press International), Hugh Sidey
(Time Magazine), Ray Scherer
(NBC), and Chuck Roberts
(Newsweek Magazine).
Marianne Means
Helen Thomas
Hugh Sidey
Douglas Kiker
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In Search of LBJ at the Library
John Connally: I think he is probably
one of the most
- on "The Women's Movement
Through the Eyes of the Media." Panelists will include Sey
Chassler, Editor of Redhook Magazine; Peggy Simpson,
President of the Washington Press Club; and Isabelle Shelton
with the Washington Star.
Tuesday will be devoted to state
- : former LIFE
magazine photographers Gordon
Parks and Charles Moore: Mag1111m
photographers Bob Adelman and
Leonard Freed: then-staff photogra
pher for the Nm ion of Islam, Robert
Sengstacke;and Black Star photogra
phers Matt Heron and Bob Fitch. The
LBJ
- of "China
Beach" which he directed.
Young's first novel, The Weather
Tomorrow, was praised by Newsweek,
Author Young autographed his book for Friends
attending his presentation.
8
An Evening With Max Holland
In an administration bulging at ev
ery seam
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IT WASAMAJOROPEAATION-KEEPIKG
HIM QUIETTWOFULLHOURS!'
3
Texas Monthly
Photos Illustrate Magazine's First 25 Years
The Library
saluted
Texas
Monthly magazine, celebrating its
25th birthday, by hosting the exhibi
tion of 75 photographs it published in
that first
-
magazine,
written by
reporter Cheryl Laird, said this:
The dramal-ic sounds of the '60s
come at you from all directions at the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential
Library.
First is Lady Bird Johnson's
slightly drawling voice from her
audio diary, telling
- cannot occur
through the additional use of fossil fuels without substantially reducing the
capacity of the earth for supporting all of us."
3
Fleur Cowles who in her varied
career has been editor of two national
magazines, writer and painter,
worked
- from which Time
Magazine produced its cover designs
during those decades.
The portraits and sculptures are
as varied as the newsmakers of the 20
year period and include presidents,
protestors and performers.
The extensive show, which comes
- .
Driven by the necessity of earning money to upport his family.
Grant began to write magazine articles about his battles. and
found the work so satisfying that he decided to prepare his Mem
oirs. Almost at the same time. he began to feel the pain in his
- article
appeared in Prologue, magazine
of the National Archives. Follow
ing are excerpts.
1
In October 1964 Mrs. Johnson
set out on a campaign trip for Presi
dent Johnson that became known as
the Whistle Stop Campaign. This
was the most public exposure
- the President
while writing the report for a presi
dential commission.
Prior to that he had worked as a
reporter for the Associated Pr ss. as
news editor of Archirecrural Fortun
magazine, and as a freelance writ r.
A native of Kansas Middleton grad
uated
- to
President Ford.
•
On the other side were the men and women of the Press:
Frank Cormier, Associated Pr
- were ther . But this
condensed version of an account
by
Jack
Maguire
in
the
July/August is ue of .T.'s Alcalde
magazine bear repeating. It is
reprinted here with Alcalde's per
mi sion.
, Year·s Eve. I c 63, doesn't
loom large in the history
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in a show created by and borrowed
from the National Portrait Gallery,
titled "The Family 1976" were taken
for Rolling Stone magazine, which
commissioned Avedon lo photograph
the President,ial ,candidates in the
1976 primaries. Avedon expanded
the assignment
-
oul of 60. A magazine editor goe back to New York and calls
a meeting of all women's magazine editor· to DO OME
THING about he Equal Rights Amendment this year. The
voi1•esof the sp akers linger in our thoughts.
Rallying voices like Anne Armstrong, "Go
- , featuring works by talented junior and senior high school students in the Central and North-Central
region of Texas, was part of the national Scholastic Art Awards program which has been sponsored for more than a half century by
Scholastic Magazin .
9
- of the Soviet and Eastern Euro
pean Research Program at Johns Hopkins Univer
sity; Strobe Talbott, diplomatic correspondent for
Time magazine; Philip Bobbitt, UT law professor;
Robert Kaiser, national correspondent for the
Washington Post; James Goodby
- , the President
retired to his private quarters aboard
the p1ane. Jake Pick1e, Bill and I
were settling down to magazines
when someone came to say BiH was
to go in to the President.
For some 20 minutes, he was in the
small room, the President tucked into
white
- the way men live and die when
they know death is among them."
Commissioned a second lieutenant in
The eyes f Pablo Picasso. Photo courtesy Peter Smith, Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, UTA
As a civilian photographer
for
Life magazine, Duncan
- . The till
Photo Division responds Lo an average of 50 requests per
week. primarily for photographs from the White House
collection. In the first five years of operation, virtually
every national magazine has used materials from the pho
tographic archives
- react
badly to some bit you have
written, it's a hard but invaluable
lesson: "I'm never going to do
that again!"
Mamet's next career stop was a
stint at Playboy magazine. He
met all sorts of people there, did
some editing, and by his account,
wrote most
- little format called the magazine
in which in five minutes or less, they will sum up a subject of great
controversy and deliver a very pronounced decision." This, he
said, "is not the kind of systematic informing of public opinion
that is up to the kind
- . And the end ol the Reagan era came on
Di::cenibcr-+.I 986. on the o -ed pag • of the Nl'w York T111u·.1.
~hen a rc,pccted eJnor of a foreign policy magazine declared.
"It is high time tor America to dcmon.,tratc awarcne ., of its
~trength in the world today
- magazine,
introduced LBJ biographer Robert
Caro to a crowd in the LBJ Library
Auditorium as "a man of tremendous
had thought the book would take nine
months to do. It wound up taking
seven years-because,
as he told his
wife Ina (who is his entire research
- and, in many cases, more effective with me. I read
newspapers and magazines. I watched television for news
and comment. I was in touch with many members of Con
gress every single day. I was receiving letters from friends
and enemies, from the informed
- Committee and Finance Committee. He was
also president pro tempore of the senate in 1974. Texas
Momhly magazine cited Mr. Sherman as one of the IO best
legislators in the 1973, 1975 and 1977 sessions. He resigned
from the senate in 1977, to become President
- , Fortune Magazine
Not since Teddy RooscYelt's time has there been so strong a current
of concern among the people to preserve the lyricism of the continent
and its seas This current has be n submerged in recent years. It does
need a cataly~t. a political
- an extremely transitory
majorily.
The presidential election was also
the subject of a presentation by
Life magazine editor Todd Brew
ster and Life reporter Peter
Meyer, who recounted the high
lights of the campaign as they had
covered it. They spoke
- winner David
Shribman is Washington bureau chief
of The Boston Globe.
He writes a column that appears
in more than fifty newspapers, and
another for Fortune magazine. He
appears frequent! y on television's
"Face the Nation" and ·•Washington
Week in Review
- is currently Styles Pro
fessor Emerita in American Stud
ies and Professor of Government.
Professor Parker teaches at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Gov
ernment, and is the co-founder
of the magazine Mother Jones,
which has described itself as "your
home
- the
Watergate scandal, and the Per ian
Gulf War. His hallmark has been
quiet and effective diplomacy; hi
mantra was always " ever l t the
other fellow set the agenda." Time
magazine once called him "the
Velvet Hammer."
In his first statevvide campaign
- ? l've had enough
problems." He paused. "But if I want
ed to b"' the chancellor of The
niversity of~ xas I would be the b st
one they ever had."
Hugh Sidney (Time magazine
Washington hureau chief): This coun
try never produced a man who
under, toocl
- , directed by Gloria Quinlan.
Photos by Charles Bogel.
8
An Evening With Gregory Curtis and the Venus de Milo
[n 2000 the Columbia Journalism
Review selected Gregory Curtis as one
of the ten best magazine editors in the
country. Curtis recently retired
