The Sun King
Excerpt
I OWE MY INTRODUCTION TO SANDY GALVIN TO the one essential, irreducible requirement
of being a magazine editor, which is that you have to fill the white space. Our
features editor, Annabelle Paige, had quit—she called it a "resignation in protest,"
as if she were an aggrieved member of the President's Cabinet—because I had changed
a picture caption she had written. The picture was of a woman in her sixties who was
trying to defy age and gravity in a low-cut ball gown. Our features editor had
written, "The always charming Mrs. Robert P. Edgerly trips the life fantastic at the
Ambassador's Ball." I had crossed that out and written, "Barbie's mom? No, it's Mrs.
Robert P. Edgerly at the Ambassador's Ball."
Nothing too mean about that. Some women might actually take it as a compliment. And
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