No--but if he had there would have been no panache.
The title was not actually mine--which happens frequently with some magazines far more often than others. Consequently I don't try to anticipate editors, instead titling articles very basically, letting the editors do that they want. In this instance my title was, as I recall, "Tradition and Practicality." But Diana Rupp distilled the essence very well--as a good editor does.
Part of the deal, of course, is that editors may end up with too many articles in the same issue with similar, simple titles--which writers can't anticipate. I know this from having been the head editor of three magazines.
