Series I.E. Managing Editor Subject Files, 1959-1979, inclusive
Extent
2 Linear feet in 3 record cartons
Scope and Contents
The Managing Editor Subject files include materials from 1959 to 1979 and were collected by several managing editors at Fortune including Duncan Norton-Taylor, Robert Lubar, and Louis Banks. Records focus on a proposed transition to publishing Fortune biweekly; the establishment of President, the Japanese version of Fortune; the planning of special issues of Fortune; seminars hosted by Fortune; and include correspondence with story ideas and comments on articles. Also included are reports on events, schedules, clippings, and correspondence discussing meetings, plans for magazine issues, and responses to articles. The President files include negotitions on which Fortune articles to reprint, a letter detailing the structure and content of the first issue, and a report from a President staff member regarding what she learned during her visit to observe the editorial operations of Fortune.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically.
Ackerman, Edward A., circa 1972, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alfred Politz Research: Report on Executive Attitudes on Mergers, 1966-1967, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American Society of Magazine Editors, 1975, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biweekly Fortune, 1975-1977, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 4-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Copy Processing, 1972, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Economic Series in 1974, 1973, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Editorial Development Directive for Fortune, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Experimental Projects: Biweekly Fortune, 1967, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Glen Cove Economists Dinner: Dr. Mesthene Group, 1971, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Goodrich, 1969, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Langenhove, Fernand van, 1960, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal, 1966-1970, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memoranda, 1975, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Moonshot: Apollo 17, 1972, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Penn Central: Article Dispute, 1970, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Research Center Investment, 1974?, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
President Magazine, 1962-1968, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 18-20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Seminar: Chicago: 1971 May 24-25, 1971, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
South African Supplement, 1971, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: 1967 Sept. 15, 1967, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: 1968 Sept. 15, 1968, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: 500 Issue: 1968 June 15, 1968, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: 500-50: 1966 mid-July - 1967 June 15, 1966-1967, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: American Crisis, 1970, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Business and Environment: 1970 Feb., 1969, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Innovation Industry, 1966-1967, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Latin America: 1962 Feb., 1961, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: "Negro" [African American]: Cities: 1968 Jan., 1967-1968, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: New York: 1960 Feb., 1959-1960, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 17-18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Space: 1962 June, 1962, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Transportation, 1971, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Special Issue: Youth, 1968-1969, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 20-21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Staff Correspondence and Memoranda, 1964-1977, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Staff Salaries, 1968?, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Stonehenge, 1967-1968, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 22-24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Story Comment, 1972-1974, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2886, Folder: 25-28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Story Comment, 1975-1979, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2887, Folder: 1-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Story Suggestion, 1978, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 2887, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tapes, circa 1966, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 3302, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
Includes audiovisual material with dictation from Louis Banks:
2 audio belts (Magnabelt).