KEEPING POSTED
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Publication Date:
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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2014/05/20: CIA-RDP74-00115R000300080047-4
Keeping Posted
Next Week: The New Post
The Post grows younger. Front row, left to right: Kremer, Reukauf, Abecassis, Frazee,
Cudd, Foley. Second row: Hull, Lyle, Hostetler, Haring, Grosvenor, Yonkovig. Third
row: Patterson, Haverstock, Pryce, Congdon. Top: Knapp, Berg, Young, Vaughan, Owen.
"The scuttlebutt in Los Angeles,"
writes subscriber Alice F. Curtis, "is
that the SatEvePost is to appear in a
new format this fall, with only one
piece of fiction per issue. Now in the
housewife set this is causing consid-
erable consternation. Between TV,
newspapers and magazines, we are
surfeited with How-To-Do articles,
Liz Taylor's romances, Jacqueline
Kennedy's hairdo, and her daugh-
ter's latest cutism. . . .3)
In short, reader Curtis wishes to
be assured that The Post will not
abandon its fiction readers.
Assuredly, fiction will not evapo-
rate in "the new Post"?on sale next
week, at twenty cents?but we will
be sifting it through a finer screen,
averaging three stories and one se-
rial per issue. Neither will the POST
SCRIPTS page vanish, as the Saturday
Review claimed in a recent and
friendly preview of our new format.
But next week's Post will be quite an
eye opener. We're convinced our
readers will be as enthusiastic about
it as we are.
The big change will be in design.
We shall introduce end-to-end
make-up, which will allow us to re-
frain from jumping most stories from
the front of the magazine to the
back. Art editor Kenneth Stuart is
employing new and exciting tech-
niques of illustration. Our picture
staff recently was bolstered by the
addition of a second photography
editor ?Davis Thomas, thirty-two,
who worked for Life for six years in
New York and Los Angeles.
Under the label, SPEAKING OUT:
THE VOICE OF DISSENT, we shall
publish each week an article of
opinion, often urgent, occasionally
satirical, always forthright and con-
troversial. PEOPLE ON THE WAY UP
is a pictorial feature on men and
women under forty who show great
promise. It is edited by Morton D.
Hull, thirty-four, former English
teacher, former Washington re-
porter, and for the past year an
ADVENTURES OF THE MIND editor.
To maintain our youthful new
appearance we have infused our
staff with a large dose of youthful
talent. The staff members pictured
on this page average twenty-eight
years of age and have a wide range
of credentials:
Art Seidenbaum, recently a Los
Angeles correspondent for Life, is
setting up our first editorial office in
L.A., on Sunset Boulevard. Don
Oberdorfer, a Raymond Clapper
award runner-up for his Charlotte
Observer series on Congressional ex-
pense accounts, has joined our
Washington bureau. LETTERS editor
Jack Haring once taught a night
class in copy editing at American
University and had among his
students Nathan A. Haverstock,
who had majored in Greek and
Latin at Harvard. Haverstock came
to us after six years as a Latin-
American specialist with the Library
of Congress. Five other young lin-
guists on the staff: Stephen Berg,
who joined us this summer upon
finishing a two-year Rockefeller-
Centro Mexicano de Escritores fel-
Photography's Thomas.
lowship in Mexico, where he trans-
lated Mexican poetry into English
and completed a collection of his
own poetry; David A. Lyle, who
studied at the Sorbonne, is an ac-
complished deep-sea diver; Andre
Abecassis, whose parents immi-
grated to New York from Morocco,
was first in her class this spring at
the University of Pennsylvania's
Annenberg School of Communi-
cations; associate editor Barbara
Graybeal Kremer, who speaks
French, reads German, was val-
edictorian of the class of '57 at
Marietta College; Elizabeth Frazee
worked for the ECA in Paris for
three years, came to us after a stint
as editor of Phi Beta Kappa's The
Key Reporter.
Zen Yonkovig and Homer
Grosvenor have been deeply in-
volved in the revamping of The
Post. Yonkovig produced sample
layouts for more than two years be-
fore we settled on a new format.
Grosvenor has been our production
specialist; now he helps edit THE
FACE OF AMERICA. Copyreader
Dick Pryce worked for nine papers
before coming to The Post. Pryce's
officemate, Harold P. Hostetler,
earned a Phi Beta Kappa key while
working his way through the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh as a full-time
reporter for the Pittsburgh Press and
the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat.
Three of our young rewrite editors?
L.A.'s Seidenbaum. D.C.'s Oberdorfer.
Daniel Knapp, Thomas B. Cong-
don Jr. and Benton R. Patter-
son?have written Post articles and/
or stories in their free time. Roger
Vaughan and Sam Young are pho-
tography assistants. Young was ed-
itor of the Harvard Lampoon;
Vaughan is a graduate of Brown
and of our Curtis training program.
Manuscript reader Kent Owen
was captain of the Indiana Univer-
sity brain team which competed on
TV's G-E College Bowl this spring.
And the three young researchers in
our library?Frances Foley, Sally
Reukauf and Joy Cudd?are
bright, industrious and pretty.
When that Saturday Review editor
made the erroneous statement that
the POST SCRIPTS page was on the
way out, could he have meant
KEEPING POSTED? KP will be merged
with the table of contents next
week. We'll see you there.
Printed in U.S. A.
Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2014/05/20: CIA-RDP74-00115R000300080047-4