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Article: Now it can be told. (reminiscences of retiring publisher of National Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 27, 1989
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THIS is your office," Bill Buckley told me solemnly. It was Thursday morning, July 25, 1957, and I had just ended a nine-year career as a practicing lawyer-seven and a half of them as an associate in Wall Street's largest law firm, and 17 months as associate counsel to the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommitteeto join NATIONAL REVIEW as its publisher. We were in the second-largest office in the magazine's premises, which were then in a rather dingy building at 211 East 37th Street, just east of Manhattan's Third Avenue.
Bill himself had held the titles of both editor and publisher since the magazine's inception in November 1955, and his decision to ...