Author, editor and ambassador. Born in Austria, he was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who began his career at Time magazine as an immigrant copy boy in 1944 and became its top editor and later ran Time Inc.'s media empire. After serving 11 years as Times's managing editor during which he moved the magazine away from partisanship and strengthened the independence of its voice in national and world affairs and personally wrote the magazine's editorial calling for President Nixon's resignation, eight months before the former president left the White House; then served as editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications until his retirement in 1987. Subsequently, President Regan apointed him United States ambassador to Austria, his birth country, where he served from 1988 until 1990. Published "Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight," an account of his deteriorating vision because of macular degeneration, in 1999; his final book, and first novel, A Saint, More or Less, appeared in 2004. Cause of death: heart failure, in Manhattan, New York.
Author, editor and ambassador. Born in Austria, he was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who began his career at Time magazine as an immigrant copy boy in 1944 and became its top editor and later ran Time Inc.'s media empire. After serving 11 years as Times's managing editor during which he moved the magazine away from partisanship and strengthened the independence of its voice in national and world affairs and personally wrote the magazine's editorial calling for President Nixon's resignation, eight months before the former president left the White House; then served as editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications until his retirement in 1987. Subsequently, President Regan apointed him United States ambassador to Austria, his birth country, where he served from 1988 until 1990. Published "Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight," an account of his deteriorating vision because of macular degeneration, in 1999; his final book, and first novel, A Saint, More or Less, appeared in 2004. Cause of death: heart failure, in Manhattan, New York.
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