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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 10
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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