Series I.B. Editor-in-Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald Files, 1944-1998 (bulk 1968-1987), inclusive

General Correspondence is primarily correspondence to and from people outside of the Time Inc. although files earlier than 1969 and all "General: A-Z" contains a mix of internal and external correspondents and looks like Grunwald's office chron files. "General: Letters" are solely external correspondents. His correspondence spans from his position as a Time magazine Senior Editor in charge of the books section and foreign affairs through his final position as Editor-in-Chief.

External correspondents include former Time Inc. employees such as James Shepley and Hedley Donovan; non-Time Inc. staff members of the board (Sol M. Linowitz and Thomas J. Watson, Jr.); Time subscribers; editors from other magazines such as Helen Gurley Brown (Cosmopolitan) and Malcom Forbes; authors and journalists at other publications; freelance journalists; book publishers; current and former government officials such as members of Congress (Patrick Moynihan), state governors, and United States ambassadors, including former Time Inc. employee Herman Nickel, and other Department of State officials; heads of companies such as Armand Hammer (Occidental Petroleum), Katharine Graham (The Washington Post Company), Cornell Capa (International Center for Photography), and John Diebold (The Diebold Group); presidents and professors of universities; and other notable people. There is correspondence of a mixed social and official nature with notable figures who also seem to be personal friends or acquaintances such as Ben Netanyahu, Richard Nixon, Sol Linowitz, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Records includes memoranda to himself or others regarding article ideas; several memoranda to Time Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer including his opinion on Whittaker Chambers (1961-1962); comments and complaints on articles from readers or the subjects of the articles such as Shelley Berman (1961-1962), Seymour Krim of Nugget magazine (1961-1962), the Cherokee Nation (1968), the Mayor of San Diego (1969), and Ralph Nadar (1976); internal memoranda regarding these comments or complaints; internal memoranda to research or writing staff regarding errors in the magazine; offers for and discussion of writing assignments; invitations to be a guest speaker; travel arrangements; notifications of notable visitors to Time Inc.; applications to associations such as Chaos Club and Century Club; discussion of recently attended events; and general social correspondence. The records also contain correspondence between Grunwald and editors handling publication of his writing outside of Time Inc. Publications and publishers include Horizon magazine, Harper & Brothers (filed under "C" for Cass Canfield), and Harper & Row (filed under "L" for John Leggett).

Items of interest include two early letters from Grunwald to Content Peckham, Time's chief of research and first woman editor, during his first job as a copy boy (1944-1952); a memo to file recounting Grunwald's conversation with Time Inc. President James Linen regarding Linen's opinions on Time Inc. management and research and development (1961-1962); Grunwald's 1959 memorandum to Linen suggesting that Time Inc. enter the musical record business (1961-1962); copy of a letter from Lester Bernstein when he was still at Time-Life International; a thank you letter from Judge Sirica on being named Man of the Year (1974); a very angry letter from Kurt Vonnegut regarding a People article (1979); a letter from Fidel Castro Ruz (1981); complaints from Accuracy in Media in its early years; slide photographs from a 1977 Irving Lazar party; years-long correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov; an invitation from Diane von Furstenburg for Gloria Steinem's 50th birthday (1984); and several letters between him and the Reagans including handwritten notes from Nancy.

Interoffice Correspondence is primarily correspondence and memoranda to and from Time Inc. staff regarding work matters. Frequent correspondents have individual folders and the rest of the correspondence is in memo files. The correspondents are mainly managing editors and publishers of the major magazines, members of the Magazine Development Department, and heads of corporate offices. Folders with an individual's name may contain correspondence from others forwarded by the named person.

Frequent interoffice correspondents and titles held relevant to these records include:

Louis Banks: Editorial Director, board member, and consultant after retirement; Don Barr: Time General Manager, Sports Illustrated Associate Publisher and Advertising Sales Director;

Reginald Brack: Chief Executive Officer of Time Inc.'s magazine group;

Ruth Brine: Time researcher and Senior Editor;

Ray Cave: Sports Illustrated Assistant Managing Editor, Time Managing Editor, Corporate Editor and Editorial Director;

George Constable: Time-Life Books Managing Editor;

Ralph Davidson: Time Publisher, assistant to Time Inc. president James Shepley, and Chairman of the Board;

Hedley Donovan: Editor-in-Chief before Grunwald and consultant after 1979 retirement;

Dick Duncan: Time-Life News Service reporter then Chief of Correspondents;

Murray Gart: Time Assistant Managing Editor, Time-Life News Service Chief of Correspondents, and the final Washington Star Editor;

Leah Gordon: Time Letters Editor, Chief of Research, and Time Administrative Editor;

Ralph Graves: Editorial Director and consultant after 1983 retirement;

Edward Jamieson: Time Assistant Managing Editor then Executive Editor;

Leon Jaroff: Discover Managing Editor;

Jeanne Kerr: Vice President of Corporate Contributions;

Ron Kriss: Time Executive Editor;

Phil Kunhardt: Life Managing Editor and a member of Magazine Development;

Marshall Loeb: Time Senior Editor and Economics Editor, Money Managing Editor, and Magazine Development Managing Editor;

Joan Manley: Board member and Group Vice President of Books;

Carolyn McCandless: Assistant Secretary and Vice President and Director of Employee Benefits;

Jason McManus: Time Managing Editor and successor as Editor-in-Chief to Grunwald;

J. Richard Munro: Vice President then Executive Vice President for television and films, and President and Chief Executive Officer;

Nicholas J. Nicholas: Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President for video operations, board member, and President and co-Chief Executive;

Curt Prendergast: Time foreign correspondent and co-author of The World of Time Inc.: Volume Three, 1961-1980;

Gil Rogin: Managing Editor of Discover and Corporate Editor;

Bill Rukeyser: founding Money Managing Editor and Fortune Managing Editor;

Patricia Ryan: first woman Managing Editor of any major Time Inc. publication as People Managing Editor;

Robert Steed: Personnel Office Director;

Richard Stolley: Managing Editor of People, Life, Picture Week, and Magazine Development;

Kelso Sutton: Sports Illustrated Publisher, Vice President then Executive Vice President of the Magazine Group, President of the Books Division, and board member;

Donald Wilson: Vice President of Corporate Public Affairs.

Topics discussed include frequent comparisons and tracking of Newsweek, Time's major competitor; ideas Grunwald likes seen in other publications; comments on articles and projects; history of the Time Index in 1975; cost control considerations in 1975; extensive comments on writing style and word use; starting a women's magazine in 1976 and 1977; reviving Life in 1977; reorganizing Time Inc. in 1977; donating the Time cover art collection which ultimately went to the National Portrait Gallery in 1978; staff appointments including their history with Time Inc.; magazine development and proposals; board elections and new corporate staff, earnings reports; redesign of Fortune; Time Inc.'s affirmative action attempts; evaluations of Editorial departments (usually by Frank Lalli); notes from Phil Kunhardt on Life history; meeting agenda and transcripts. Staff Memos are on topics such as writing style points, announcements, masthead changes, and development of new staff positions.

The Departmental Files are Grunwald's office files on various projects and subjects. Records include topical files of research for articles and essays; essays for the annual reports; magazine development with some market testing and development strategy plans; submissions of essays from others on requested topics (U.S. Woman); opinion surveys (Yanklovich); nominations for and debate over Man of the Year (later Person of the Year); public and other news organization opinions on the Sharon v. Time libel case; letters of congratulations for appointments; research memos from Dorothy Ferenbaugh and others (irredentism, World Press Freedom Committee); meeting agenda and notes along with some meeting transcripts; some speech scripts and presentation print-outs for events such as Edit Staff Dinners and Life's 50th Anniversary; and agenda, attendee lists, and planning materials for conferences sponsored by Time Inc. (Western Symposium and Discover Terrorism Conference) and other programs such as the Distinguished Speakers Program. New magazines in development include: Together, Quality, Yesterday, Leisure, Home Office, and Woman.

Topics of discussion include new features (What To Do About…, Sex Section); laws affecting the publishing/journalism field (Shield Law, Stanford Supreme Court decision); ideas for articles for special issues ("The Black Issue" and "Southern Issue"), and comment notes on Time Inc.'s magazines and their competitors such as Newsweek.

Items of interest include includes remarks from several long-time employees on the history of Time including Roy Larsen in the 1973 Anniversary Dinner file; letters of congratulations in 1977 include one from President Jimmy Carter; a dummy for "Tempus," the Time College Supplement in the 1979 Magazine Development file; letters of congratulations in 1979 were received from the Librarian of Congress, National Security Advisor, Lee Iacocca, Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner and Barbara Walters; a schedule of Vice President Mondale's 1979 visit to NYC and Time Inc.; handwritten, possible photocopy, letter from artist Andrew Wyeth in 1983; and a possible Entertainment Weekly precursor proposal in the 1984 Staff Magazine Ideas files.

Early Files and 1963-1973 make up two groups of files found housed together, respectively, that are not from a single year. They were kept in the found groups, but reorganized chronologically. Some of the files designated as 1973 date from 1970 to 1972. 1974 has two sets of alphabetical files; one was transferred with a form and one was not, but is similar, though not duplicates, to the transferred set of files. The Departmental Files contain some name and memo files similar to Interoffice Correspondence that are not duplicates. Since these files were transferred to the Time Inc. Archives as Departmental Files, they have not been moved to Interoffice Correspondence.