richard63 wrote:
One wonders if policies loosened up in the company in 1983.

With regards to the west coast thing, I thought Thomas was already there before he moved to DC.
Without any actual knowledge at my fingertips, my instinct is that you are right about a policy change.  Wasn't Mike W. Barr also a writer-editor for a time?

I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that Thomas was already out on the west coast well before he arrived at DC. 


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