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- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 4
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- This special issue on California fulfills a long-standing
- ambition of mine: to explain this amazing state to a national and
- international audience that knows it better for its cliches than
- for it complexity. My colleagues jokingly say I'm interested mainly
- because I grew up in San Francisco. I suppose there's some truth
- to that, if only because the changes in the state are all the more
- overwhelming to someone who knew it in the 1950s and '60s.
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- Any biases I may have were offset by senior editor Jack White,
- a North Carolinian who got some exposure to the Golden State when
- he lived in Fresno in the '60s. Jack put this issue together with
- the expert guidance of executive editor Ron Kriss, who still
- regrets leaving the home he owned in Sausalito when he lived there
- as executive editor of Saturday Review in the early 1970s.
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- Most of the stories were written and reported by our
- correspondents and reporters in Los Angeles and San Francisco,
- under the supervision of West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante.
- Jordan first lived in Los Angeles in the late '60s, when he was
- bureau chief for LIFE magazine; he returned three years ago after
- a foreign career that had taken him to London, Rome and paris. "How
- much farther from Europe can you get?" he asks. For San Francisco
- bureau chief Paul Witteman, the assignment was especially
- nostalgic: he move to New York as deputy chief of correspondents
- this week after a total of eight years (in two stints) in the City
- by the Bay. Of all the photographers represented in this issue,
- none was more thrilled by the assignment than P.F. Bentley, a
- resident of Stinson Beach, Calif.
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- As we were completing this issue, we received sad news: a dear
- colleague, Robert T. Zintl Jr., 44, died suddenly on Tuesday
- working in his office in Rome, where he was bureau chief. Terry,
- as his friends called him, went to Italy a year ago after five
- years editing in our Nation section and nine months as deputy
- managing editor of the New York Daily News. Terry was a natural
- journalist, always curious and professional, devoted to his family,
- a gracious and cheerful presence in the Time & Life Building in New
- York City and on the Via Sardegna in Rome. We will miss him
- immensely.
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- -- Henry Muller
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