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<text id=91TT1175>
<title>
May 27, 1991: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
May 27, 1991 Orlando
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 18
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<p> For the past four months, TIME has had a special guest. Unlike
most guests, however, he's had to work hard during his stay.
Since early February, Geoffrey Colvin, a member of the Board of
Editors at FORTUNE, has been sitting in as editor of TIME's
Business section. His visit is part of an exchange among the
publications of the Time Inc. Magazine Co., intended to give
selected editors a taste of new environs.
</p>
<p> Colvin has made the transition to TIME with ease and elan,
overseeing the Business section during an especially busy
period. Two cover stories--on the nuclear-power industry and
on the Scientology cult--appeared on his watch. He edited two
major stories on shady dealings at the Bank of Credit & Commerce
International as well as perceptive articles on the rebounding
housing industry and on Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer.
</p>
<p> "I've had a terrific time," says Colvin. After 12 1/2
years at FORTUNE, he admits that TIME's different style and
approach required some adjustment. The two magazines, for
example, are aimed at largely different readerships. "FORTUNE's
readers are managers," he says, "while TIME's readers are
consumers." TIME's more hectic, weekly schedule also took some
getting used to. "I'm impressed with the speed with which things
happen around here," he says. His staff was equally impressed
with Colvin's speed at adapting. "He handled an unusually heavy
crunch of covers and major breaking stories without missing a
beat," says associate editor Janice Castro.
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<p> A native of South Dakota, Colvin, 37, majored in economics
at Harvard. While still in school and just afterward, he worked
as a disk jockey for classical-music radio stations. (He still
puts his radio voice to good use, as a commentator on business
for CBS Radio.) Colvin spent three years as a ghostwriter for
CBS Inc. chairman William S. Paley's autobiography, As It
Happened, before joining FORTUNE as a reporter. An editor there
since 1984, he has worked on virtually every kind of story the
magazine covers, though his primary responsibility is the
Managing section.
</p>
<p> As his TIME assignment nears an end, Colvin is not leaving
without some regrets. Says he: "Four months is enough time to
feel like you know the job." It was enough time for us to feel
like we know the guest--and to realize that we'll miss him.
</p>
<p>-- Robert L. Miller
</p>
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