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New Times (magazine)
''New Times'' was an American glossy bi-weekly national newspaper published from 1973 to 1979 by George A. Hirsch. History and profile Hirsch had been publisher of '' New York'' magazine, but resigned after conflicts with founder/editor Clay Felker. ''New Times'' began as a bridge between the newsweeklies and the more reflective monthly opinion magazines, notably '' Harper's'' and ''The Atlantic''. The first issue appeared in October 1972. Initially, the magazine featured a marquee roster of the era's best-known "new journalists," including Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, and Dick Schaap. However, as the magazine's ad revenues lagged, contributions from the big names soon dried up, and under the skilled editorship of Jonathan Z. Larsen, ''New Times'' shifted to an investigative approach, offering pieces on the CIA, congressional committees, political spying, activism, the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, the cult or system of psychological training est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Aaron Hirsch
George Aaron Hirsch (born June 21, 1934), is a magazine publisher, a founder of the New York City Marathon, a candidate for United States Congress and a television commentator. Hirsch was the founding publisher of New York, New Times and The Runner magazines. Hirsch was also the worldwide publisher of Runner’s World, the first publishing director of Men's Health and the publisher of La Cucina Italiana. He is currently the chairman of the board of the New York Road Runners. Early life, education and family Hirsch was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle where he attended public schools. He graduated from Princeton University in 1956 with a BA in history (magna cum laude) and the Harvard Business School in 1962. He served as a naval officer on an LST home ported in Naples, Italy from 1957 to 1960. He and Shay Scrivner were married in 1989, the second marriage for each of them. He has two sons, David and William. He also has two stepsons, Ian Scrivner and Sean Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Wolff
Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) and fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Berlin (2007), and the Guggenheim Foundation. His younger brother Tobias Wolff is also an award-winning writer. Biography Geoffrey Wolff was born in Hollywood, California, as the first son to "Duke" Arthur Samuels and Rosemary () Wolff. He is the older brother of the novelist and memoirist Tobias Wolff. Their parents separated when Geoffrey was twelve, his brother living with their mother, and Geoffrey with their father; their parents eventually divorced. He has described the adventure of his upbringing with his father on the East Coast in an acclaimed memoir, ''The Duke of Deception'' (1979), which was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. (Tobias has treated with similar candor his own years with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Political Magazines Published In The United States
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News Magazines Published In The United States
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technological and social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have transported new information through oral means. Having developed in China over centuries, newspapers became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, he was reelected to his eighth Senate term, having first been elected in 1980. A member of the Republican Party, Grassley served eight terms in the Iowa House of Representatives (1959–1975) and three terms in the United States House of Representatives (1975–1981). He has served three stints as Senate Finance Committee chairman during periods of Republican Senate majority. When Orrin Hatch's Senate term ended on January 3, 2019 following his retirement, Grassley became the most senior Republican in the Senate and its president pro tempore. During his four decades in the Senate, Grassley has chaired the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Narcotics Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Aging Committee. Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president as well as the only president to date from Michigan. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and was appointed to be the 40th vice president in 1973. When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the school's football team, winning two national championships. Following his senior year, he turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, instead opting to go to Yale Law School. After the attack on Pearl Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozo The Clown
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century. He was introduced in the United States in 1946, and to television in 1949, later appearing in franchised television programs of which he was the host, where he was portrayed by numerous local performers. Creation and history The character was created by Alan W. Livingston and portrayed by Pinto Colvig for a children's storytelling record album and illustrated read-along book set in 1946. He became popular and served as the mascot for Capitol Records. The character first appeared on US television in 1949 portrayed by Colvig. After the creative rights to Bozo were purchased by Larry Harmon in 1957, the character became a common franchise across the United States, with local television stations producing their own Bozo shows featuring the character. Harmon bought out his business partners in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1981 to 1991. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as ''Hill Street Blues'', '' L.A. Law'', ''Law & Order'', '' ALF'', ''Family Ties'', ''The Cosby Show'', ''Cheers'', ''Seinfeld'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Wings'', ''Miami Vice'', ''Knight Rider'', ''The A-Team'', ''Saved by the Bell'', ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', ''St. Elsewhere'', and '' Night Court''. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom ''Punky Brewster''; he named the title character after a girl he had a crush on in school. He was also involved in the creation of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Beggars and Choosers''. Biography Early life and career Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine ''The Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sam Anson
Robert Sam Anson (March 12, 1945November 2, 2020) was an American journalist and author. He was noted for his work as a contributing editor to ''Vanity Fair'' for over 20 years. He also wrote for other American magazines such as ''Esquire'', ''Life'', and ''The Atlantic''. He authored six nonfiction books, including ''Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation'', about Jann Wenner and his magazine. Early life Anson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 12, 1945. His mother, Virginia Rose, worked as a teacher. She raised him as a single parent, together with her parents. His grandfather, Sam B. Anson, was a notable personality in the city's journalism industry as editor and publisher of several local daily newspapers. Anson graduated from Saint Ignatius High School in 1963. He went on to study international relations and English at the University of Notre Dame, obtaining a bachelor's degree from that institution in 1967. He spoke of The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Rosenbaum
Ronald Rosenbaum (born November 27, 1946) is an American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist. Life and career Rosenbaum was born into a Jewish family in New York City, New York and grew up in Bay Shore, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course. He was an editor of The Fire Island News and then wrote for ''The Village Voice'' for several years, leaving in 1975 after which he wrote for ''Esquire'', '' Harper's'', ''High Times'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''New York Times Magazine'' and ''Slate''. Rosenbaum spent more than ten years doing research on Adolf Hitler including travels to Vienna, Munich, London, Paris, and Jerusalem, interviewing leading historians, philosophers, biographers, theologians and psychologists. Some of those interviewed by Rosenbaum included Daniel Goldhagen, David Irving, Rudolph Binion, Claude Lanzmann, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Rapaport
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double enten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Stein (author)
Harry J. Stein (born November 25, 1948) is an American author and columnist. , he is a contributing editor to the political magazine ''City Journal''. Biography Stein graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1966 and Pomona College in May 1970. He later graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stein wrote for '' Ramparts'' and '' New Times'' magazines in the 1970s, and originated '' Esquire'' "Ethics" column in the 1980s. During the 1990s he wrote a column on television ethics for ''TV Guide.'' As part of the New York media scene of the early 1980s he was a member of the inaugural Rotisserie League formed by Daniel Okrent. He is the author of novels and memoirs, including satirical political commentary related to his transition from liberal to conservative viewpoints. His first book, ''Tiny Tim'', a biography of the entertainer, was published in 1976. Stein's father, the late Joseph Stein, was a Broadway librettist/playwright, best known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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