Winner's Circle

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Where style meets substance

He was twenty-one and baby-faced when his first issue of Rolling Stone hit the streets of Berkeley. Since then Jann Wenner has made his share of mistakes—other magazine start-ups that misfired, a drug-laced life-style that often seemed to be careening out of control—but his original vision of a tell-it-like-it-is rock 'n' roll chronicle has proved as prescient in its own way as Henry Luce's. This month, to celebrate it, comes a coffee-table anthology called 20 Years of "Rolling Stone": What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been (Friendly Press). Jim Morrison,

Pete Toumshend, the Merry Pranksters—how young they look and how long ago it seems, while the impresario of pop culture who put them in his pages (still with the wife he had when he started, and now two young sons) remains as boyish as ever.

MICHAEL SHNAYERSON