On the city-room bulletin board one day last week, New York Times reporters saw and were startled by a small but significant notice. For the first time in 21 years, the Times had a new city editor.
Quiet-spoken David Joseph, 61, who liked to go home before the sun went down and the first edition came up (TIME, June 28), had been made assistant managing editor. Into Joseph's job went able, cool Robert Garst, 47, who intends to keep.the same hours as most of his 150 reporters (2 to 11 p.m.). One sensible and (for the Times') revolutionary result: the new...
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