 For someone whose entire career had been at the same magazine and whose identity was bound up with that institution, it was a terrible shock.After her termination she would be on permanent disability, at considerably reduced pay.Elliott, her former editor who had taken a chance on her in the 1960s, recommended her for the curatorship of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, but the job went to Howard Simons, latterly the managing editor of "The Washington Post".