Exit Mr. Shawn. (William Shawn retires as editor of New Yorker)

From: National Review | Date: February 13, 1987 | Copyright information

Exit Mr. Shawn

IT SHOULDN'T BE hard to understand the two pointsof view. On the one hand the frenetic undertow of competition, and the feeling that that which must eventually happen (the retirement of Mr. Shawn) should perhaps be accelerated (to accommodate anxious business and editorial pressures). That is the point of view of management, and management's concern for quality of leadership is documented by its choice of a successor, a bookish, imaginative editor, Robert ...

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