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FAST AFOOT<br />
Editor: When the Alumni News<br />
changed its name to <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine<br />
did it also become a newsweekly?<br />
I am impressed, amazed and actually<br />
awed at your ability to report<br />
President Rhodes's retirement in<br />
your April issue, and as a cover story,<br />
less than a month after it was announced.<br />
Here it is, only 16 days after<br />
the event, and I find complete coverage<br />
in your magazine. To report it in<br />
such depth, intelligence and style,<br />
and to quote with such a variety of<br />
sources and with such an attractive<br />
layout, is, to repeat, awesome, amazing<br />
and mighty impressive.<br />
As a former magazine editor, I<br />
know that a monthly—you are still<br />
a monthly aren't you?—usually<br />
works three months in advance, so<br />
please tell us how in the world you<br />
did this.<br />
Did you have advance word from<br />
LETTERS<br />
President Rhodes in the fall and<br />
swear secrecy? Did you have the<br />
story sitting in page proof just waiting<br />
to add a date? Did you commandeer<br />
Time's computers and presses<br />
for a week? Did your editorial staff<br />
all leave your families and live at 55<br />
Brown Road for two weeks? How did<br />
you perform this feat?<br />
Albert N. Podell<br />
New York, New York<br />
Thank you for noticing, Mr. Podell.<br />
We received only 24 hours' notice of<br />
the president's retirement announcement.<br />
And yes, we normally<br />
work three months in advance of the<br />
date of publication. The April issue<br />
of <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine was scheduled<br />
to be printed on March 18, the day<br />
after President Rhodes made his<br />
announcement.<br />
We alerted the printer that we<br />
would be changing the cover, and<br />
we pulled out a five-page story and<br />
inserted the story that you read in<br />
April. It was reported, written and<br />
laid out on Thursday, Thursday<br />
night and Friday, and shipped to the<br />
printer on Saturday. Our editorial<br />
staff only had to leave their families<br />
on Thursday night and Saturday<br />
morning. It was a lot of work, but<br />
not nearly as much as it would have<br />
been a few years ago, thanks to new<br />
desktop publishing technologies that<br />
we have recently embraced here.—<br />
Ed.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine welcomes letters to<br />
the editor on relevant topics. We reserve<br />
the right to edit letters for length,<br />
style and civility. Letters should be no<br />
more than 300 words long and should<br />
be signed; we do not print unsigned letters.<br />
Mail letters to <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine<br />
at 55 Brown Road, Ithaca, NY 14850,<br />
or fax them to us at (607) 257-1782.<br />
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