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Donovan become editorial director, sixty--

Q:

1959.

Heiskell:

1959. Donovan--

Q:

No, no. Excuse me. I think it was in 1959--

Heiskell:

Editorial director.

Q:

--that he was told by Luce that he was going to be, but the actual designation--and he started operating that way according to Prendergast--but the designation might not have been until 1962.

Heiskell:

Yes, but he was editorial director. That was a new title.

Q:

Right.

Heiskell:

Not editor-in-chief, but editorial director.

Q:

Right.

Heiskell:

And I think that came at about the same time, because in effect, the company was nominating three new heads. A lot of people felt that was rather weird to have a company more or less being run by three different people, i.e. division of authority and all that. Harry was still there as editor-in-chief, but Roy had retired to the





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