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It seems that editors of major magazines are in a "club" where membership comes after rising through the ranks and, in the tradition of primogeniture, "inheriting" the job either at that magazine or a sister publication. Then, the merry-go-round between magazines and companies begins because, with a few exceptions, once an editor, always an editor.
Which makes the saga of Margaret Mary ("Maggie") Murphy so intriguing. There she was, having risen in her 17-year Time Inc. career to being one of four People executive editors. Very important, but seemingly dead-end internally because Murphy would have had to leap-frog over three peers and People deputy managing editor Peter Castro to succeed m.e. (since January 2006) Larry Hackett. Plus, at Entertainment Weekly, where Murphy...