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<text id=92TT1383>
<title>
June 22, 1992: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
June 22, 1992 Allergies
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 10
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<p> Gregory Zorthian got his first taste of time journalism as a
messenger delivering copy and coffee to our editorial staff at
the 1976 political conventions in Kansas City and New York.
Today, as our new general manager, Greg shares responsibility
for everything from overseeing the magazine's budget to taking
the hassle out of office moves. He arrives from a similar
position at our sister publication Fortune, where he was known
for his keen sense of judgment and sure grasp of even the
smallest business details. On the lighter side, Greg has earned
a reputation for showing up fresh on mornings after late-night
meetings and socializing, when everyone else was bleary eyed.
</p>
<p> The son of a foreign-service officer, Greg, 38, spent
parts of his boyhood in New Delhi, the Philippines and Saigon,
where his father Barry was chief spokesman for the U.S. embassy
for 4 1/2 years during the Vietnam War. Greg became a member of
TIME's extended family at 15 when the elder Zorthian joined Time
Inc., first as a broadcasting executive and then as vice
president for government affairs.
</p>
<p> Greg's first love was journalism, which he practiced as a
writer for the Voice of America and a reporter for the Yale
Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much
better with numbers than with words." A lightning number
cruncher with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his
concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at
Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says.
Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after
college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a
Democratic Congressman from the Bronx.
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<p> Through it all, Greg has remained deeply committed to
publishing the printed word. He spent three years at TIME-LIFE
Books before taking a leave to earn an M.B.A. at Harvard with
the intention of coming back to work on magazines. He joined
FORTUNE in the circulation department in 1981. "I found that my
history B.A. was not doing me a lot of good in business," he
recalls.
</p>
<p> At FORTUNE Greg drew on his overseas experience to help
develop foreign editions of that magazine. Outside the office
he shares his financial know-how with seventh graders at a
Manhattan junior high school, where he has been a volunteer
teacher of job skills and basic economics for the past four
years. "The school is 10 blocks from my home," he notes, "and
I wanted to give something back." Greg is a teacher to his
colleagues as well. Says he: "The general manager's role is to
help people work through business problems." We are delighted
to welcome him back.
</p>
<p> -- Elizabeth P. Valk
</p>
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