In the last days of 8 Days Dad was in negotiations with all sorts of people to save the magazine. One of the options, he swore me to secrecy, is that the Libyans and Colonel Qaddafi would fund the magazine. I don't think he ever considered this seriously, especially not in 1982 when the Libyans were the bete noire of the USA and they were behaving so unpredictably. Another idea he mentioned is that he and his colleagues could start their own magazine. His idea for the name was Compass. Dad used to get up at around five every morning to be at the office before everyone else and he would often come home late. He put so much energy into making that magazine work. Every week he had to get out a full 62 page international magazine 80% of which was copy and only 20% of which was advertising. One day he came home late, very depressed despite the fact that the magazine was doing well. I wondered why. Then, as he went downstairs he mentioned something briefly how people were sometimes disa...
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