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Frank Trippett: (1926— ) Now senior editor of Time magazine, he has had a lifelong career in journalism. He has served as a writer and editor at such national publications as Look and Newsweek and is the author of three books: The States: United They Fall(1967), The First Horseman(1974), and Child Ellen(1975). The text first appeared in Time, in which the author takes a wider view of what happens when individuals bend small laws for their own convenience.
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Frank Trippett was born July 1, 1926, in Columbus, Mississippi, and grew up in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi College, Duke University, and the University of Mississippi. Trippett’s first job as a journalist was with the Meridian (Mississippi) Star. He fell in love with journalism, which he later called, “that trade that was designed in heaven for tseful employment.” Trippett worked for the Fredericksburg (Virginia) Free Lance-Star, and was the Capital Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times before joining Newsweek magazine as an associate editor in 1961. He was a senior editor at Look magazine and a senior writer and essayist for Time magazine.
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His writing won awards from the National Headliner Club, the National Bar Association and the American Political Science Association. Trippett is the author of the nonfiction books The States, United They Fell (1967) and The First Horsemen (1974), as well as the novel Child Ellen (1975). His essays have been anthologized in numerous college writing textbooks.His most recent book, Hymning & Hawing About America (2000), published by Xlibris (), is the first comprehensive collection of his essays. The subjects of his essays range from politics and personalities to social conditions and psychological phenomena. It is a brilliant look in the rear view mirror at the American scene during the twentieth century.Frank Trippett has been called “one of the really mind-blowing talents of his generation as a journalist, essayist, and story teller.”Trippett and his wife Betty lived and raised their four children in Larchmont, New York, until his death at the age of 71 on June 18, 1998.(Article first posted January 2002)
《TIME》（即《时代周刊》），是美国乃至世界知名的时事性 周刊之一。1923年3月由亨利•R•卢斯和布里顿•哈登创办。刊 名最初为《事实》，后改用现名，由时代华纳公司在纽约出版， 读者主要是中产阶级和知识阶层。该杂志内容广泛，对国际问 题发表主张和对国际重大事件进行跟踪报道，在美国颇有影响 力。《时代周刊》也是世界知名的品牌，它在全球拥有广泛的 读者，《时代周刊》有美国国内版、国际版，以及欧洲、亚洲 和拉丁美洲版，各版内容基本相同，占据着巨大的国际市场， 成为宣传美国价值体系和生活方式的最好载体。