I've heard many tributes to S-S who've said what a wonderful aviator he was.
Yet as editor he laid into me as if I were a naughty schoolboy because I dared to fly IFR in IMC with only an IMC rating. He very forcefully told me (in the magazine) that the IMC is only the equivalent of a "military white rating" and therefore not valid for cloud flying, and much more along those lines. I wouldn't mind being told I'm a lousy aviator (probably am!) by someone who's flown with me, but I couldn't see how he could tell that while sitting at his desk.
I tended to disregard what was written in the bulletin for the rest of his tenure. If he hadn't bothered to read the official definition of the IMC rating, I thought, what value the rest of his writings.
That said, I find GASCo and GASIL extremely enlightening, and never miss reading them.