sentences:  In September 2012, when Roger D. Hodge replaced Warwick Sabin as the magazine's editor, Samir Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi and a former consultant to the magazine speculated on the uncertain future of the "iconic" magazine without its founder, Smirnoff.In December 2012, the "New York Times" remarked that Smirnoff had been 'the most important editor out of the South since Willie Morris.