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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
For most reporters, no assignment is more fascinating than
covering the White House. But for TIME Washington contributing
editor Hugh Sidey, who has chronicled the thoughts of U.S.
Presidents in his column "The Presidency" and has covered every
national election since 1960, an equally exciting dateline is
Small Town America. Beginning this week, Sidey will rove more
often through his favorite byways. In addition to his White
House column, he will contribute dispatches from around the
country under the rubric "Hugh Sidey's America." Says he: "I
will go exploring in the open spaces that lie between the great
urban centers, trying to figure out what's changing out there,
what moves those special people who cling to the land through
economic and natural hardship."
A native of Greenfield, Iowa, Sidey grew up working on the
family newspaper, the Adair County Free Press, founded by his
great-grandfather in 1889. He studied engineering at Iowa State
College but soon returned to journalism. For the past 35 years,
he has practiced his art, first for LIFE magazine, then, since
1958, for TIME. Says senior editor Thomas Sancton: "Hugh Sidey
is TIME's gift to journalism. When I was in college, I wrote
him a fan letter and was thrilled to get a handwritten reply.
I never dreamed I'd be editing his copy one day. But then, you
don't do much to Sidey's copy."
Sidey starts this week with a look at adaptation and
survival in the harsh beauty of the Great Plains region. The
idea for the story came to him during a visit to Miles City,
Mont., this summer, when he decided to seek out the lonely spot
where, in 1886, the Smithsonian's William Hornaday slaughtered
25 bison for an exhibit at Washington's National Museum of
Natural History. Recalls Sidey: "I found the site and stood
filled with a sense of being in a primeval time and place. I
understood what Montanans mean when they speak of the Big Sky
country, the immensity and timelessness of it."
In coming months, Sidey will be dodging down back roads
looking for other stories. Says he: "There is no place in this
nation you can travel without learning something fascinating.
I find romance and adventure wherever I go."
-- Louis A. Weil III