(A more restrained version has since been revived as a stand-alone section called Sunday Styles).
The Post revived it as a stand-alone section in the early 1980s.
He was also the inaugural editor of Escapes, which began as a stand-alone section.
"I think that it's possible to keep book coverage robust without a stand-alone section," Mr. Ulin said in a phone interview, "both by creative combination of using daily and Sunday print space and using the Web".
There would eventually be a stand-alone section, a changing audience for the sports pages and an intensification of the search for that ideal mix of worthiness and fun.
But a stand-alone section is easy to chuck, and we have lost the nonfans who had so often stumbled onto us en route to a recipe or a presidential transcript.
It will take away some of the prominence of a stand-alone section, the editors concede, but they argue that the physical arrangement of the paper matters less in an age when a growing proportion of its audience is online.
He was a central figure in the planning and execution of Business Day, which was started as a stand-alone section in 1978, and he played a similar role two years later in the remaking and expansion of the Sunday business section.
To me, Places seems sort of useless at this point as a stand-alone section.
Classified advertising, formerly a stand-alone section, will move to the back of Sports.
"As of Dec. 28, the Long Beach Register is no longer publishing as a stand-alone section within the Sunday edition of the Orange County Register," Morgan said.
