"He doesn't bang heads as much as he should," said one senior Time Inc. executive.
Ms. Wyland, a former editor of Martha Stewart Living, was encouraged to leave by a group of senior Time executives headed by Ann S. Moore, the president of the People division of Time Warner's Time, Time executives said.
Late in the year, a senior Time magazine editor opined that "swingin' has got out of hand because it is the kind of fun only a rich nation can afford – and England is no longer a rich nation".
Two senior Time Inc. executives said last week that an editorial job might be created above Mr. Pearlstine's, a sort of AOL Time Warner uber-editor who would oversee -- and try to create synergies between -- the journalistic activities at Time Warner and America Online.
Wooed by Time magazine, he went out and got whacked the night before, showed up hung-over for lunch with a senior Time exec, who fortunately was even more hung-over, so Tom got the job.
Her husband, by then a senior Times journalist, reinforced that newspaper's resolute "anti" stance.
Senior Times editors conducted a further inquiry and inspected the images from the entire photo assignment.
One senior Times Company executive describes the investment this way: "No one watches it, and no one will watch it.
Gove, a former senior Times journalist, met Rupert Murdoch on three occasions between 19 May and 26 June this year.
The family turned to Mr. Dryfoos, who was married to the oldest Sulzberger daughter, Marian, and who had been a senior Times executive for years.
