Milestones: Sep. 30, 1985

DIED. Manfred Gottfried, 85, journalist who in June 1922 became the first editorial employee of TIME, where he wrote as much as one-third of the magazine's copy in its early days and over a 43-year career at Time Inc. edited the National Affairs and Business sections, helped launch Fortune as an associate editor (1931-33) and then served as managing editor of TIME (1937-43), co-editor in chief (1943-45) and chief of foreign correspondents (1946-57); in Falmouth, Mass.

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