{"id":6555,"date":"2015-06-13T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:20:19","slug":"frank-zachary-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/13\/frank-zachary-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Zachary Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Town & Country<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Remembering a Meeting with Frank Zachary<\/h1>\n

A tribute from Town & Country<\/em> editor in chief Jay Fielden.<\/h2>\n

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\nJonathan Becker<\/em><\/p>\n

A few weeks after I started editing Town & Country<\/em>, I took a flight down to Florida to see a very important person\u2014Frank Zachary, who edited Town & Country<\/em> from 1972 to 1991. Under his bowtied command the magazine became a handbook for the way to live it up in America that was chronicled with documentary-like detail by the snapshot virtuoso Slim Aarons. Zachary, 97 and living in a retirement home in Delray Beach, generously shared memories and advice\u2014”Don’t lose your nerve!”\u2014from his two-decade tenure, while we sat on a back porch that overlooked a grassy yard encircled by a chirping mass of Florida jungle.<\/p>\n

In the weeks since that visit Frank’s voice sometimes echoed back in the heat of things. One of the most memorable understatements he muttered that afternoon was, “Life’s a little lonely without deadlines.” Whenever I remembered that, the oft-occurring how-will-we-get-it-all-done-in-time chest-tightening moments immediately melted away.<\/p>\n

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from Town & Country Remembering a Meeting with Frank Zachary A tribute from Town & Country editor in chief Jay Fielden. Jonathan Becker A few weeks after I started editing Town & Country, I took a flight down to Florida to see a very important person\u2014Frank Zachary, who edited Town & Country from 1972 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}