This week, for a change, this space is devoted to news from another Time Inc. publication. I would like to salute Andre Laguerre, who will be giving up the managing editor's post at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED next February; by that time, he will have been on the job for almost 14 years, longer than any other past or present M.E. at Time Inc. Under Laguerre's leadership SI's circulation has risen steadily from 900,000 to 2,250,000, ad revenues have more than tripled, and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has established itself as the most literate and graphically sophisticated sports magazine anywhere.

Bilingual by virtue of his French father and English mother, Laguerre has had a bright career in journalism. The blunt criticisms of his country's public relations that he offered to De Gaulle landed him the job of press officer for the Free French. By the early 1950s, Laguerre had been TIME'S bureau chief in both London and Paris.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was two years old when Laguerre was assigned to cover the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina for Time Inc. His reporting, and perhaps the reputation he had earned as "the sage of Longchamp and Ascot" for his expertise as a handicapper of thoroughbred race horses, persuaded Henry R. Luce to transfer Laguerre to his new sports magazine as assistant managing editor. Soon after he became managing editor in April 1960, Laguerre recruited young writers and encouraged them to develop their individual styles, sharply increased the number of color pages in each issue, and concentrated heavily on the spectator sports that television had begun to make popular.

He was successful in his private ventures as well, acquiring a racing stable in France in 1967 that today is home for four thoroughbreds. As his colleagues have learned to expect, the horses wearing the Laguerre silks are often winners. Although he has not yet decided what his next move will be, he will carry with him wherever he chooses to go--whether inside or outside Time Inc.--the immense respect of the SI staff and his fellow editors throughout the company.

Roy Terrell, who will be SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S next managing editor, joined the magazine in 1955 after serving as a Marine pilot in World War II and as a sportswriter and editor on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He became an SI senior editor in 1960, an assistant managing editor in 1963 and for the past three years has been executive editor. Terrell's versatility in writing about almost every known sport, his imagination and his journalistic judgment will surely continue to be a large ingredient of the magazine's success.

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