The Press: Grave New World

Where did the old Saturday Review go? Right up the street, as it turns out. Norman Cousins, who stalked away from SR and its new owners' overhaul plans seven months ago, last week put out the first biweekly issue of World magazine; it is the deadest of ringers for SR as it used to be.

Cousins greeted his newsstand customers and 75,000 charter subscribers with the Cousinsish statement that the "ultimate adventure on earth is the adventure of ideas," and added that World "would like to be part of that adventure." Cautiously, he went...

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