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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
The Open
Mind of
Richard Heffner ’46
Veteran PBS interviewer provides forum for guests
to examine, question, disagree
B y T h o m a s V i n c i g u e r r a ’85, ’86J, ’90 GSAS
It was quite a celebratory lunch. Here
were NYU President John Sexton and his one-time counterpart
at Brown, Vartan Gregorian. There were past New York State
Chief Judges Sol Wachtler and Judith Kaye ’58 Barnard. The
New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus mingled
with former Nation editor Victor Navasky. Joan Ganz Cooney
of the Children’s Television Workshop and prolific producer
Norman Lear were on hand, too. So were three-term New York
City Mayor Ed Koch, legendary Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau,
famed First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams, journalist Bill Moyers ....
(Opposite) An Open Mind staff member prepares the set for Richard D. Heffner ’46, ’47 GSAS to interview Dr. Peter Bach,
director of the Center for Health and Policy Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
PHOTOS: RANDY MONCEAUX
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