During Quinn’s 19 years at NEWSWEEK she has won numerous awards, including the 1995 Loeb for distinguished journalism. It is easy to tell why. Quinn alerted our readers to dangerous speculation by savings and loans in 1984, years before the bankruptcy catastrophe unfolded. She was first to warn consumers of misleading sales practices in the life-insurance business. And back when it was still fashionable to deride today’s twentysomethings as ““slackers,’’ Quinn noted that they were saving and investing like no generation since before World War II.
Quinn says her goal is to make her columns ““as useful as possible.’’ Just one measure of her tremendous success in this endeavor is a 1990 column she wrote on ““pension maximization.’’ After it appeared, 4,000 readers wrote to request copies. We’ve long come to expect great work from Quinn, and we congratulate her on receiving the recognition that she deserves.
