In a Reflective Mood

BEING asked for memories of NATIONAL REVIEW makes me feel like Wodehouse’s Oldest Member: How ever to choose? But when I think of the early Seventies, I think first of Magazine Tuesday and Wednesday.

The basic routine was fixed. The out-of-town editors would filter in on Tuesday morning-Jim Burnham, Jeff Hart, sometimes George Will or Bill Rickenbacker. We junior editors enjoyed catching up with them while we finished our lists of topics for “The Week.”