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...York Times (whose late great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda first brought Einstein to the attention of the general public) editorialized: "To employ the unnatural and illegal forces of civil disobedience, as Professor Einstein advises, is in this case to attack one evil with another. McCarthyism should be fought cleanly and openly, and it will certainly be defeated in the long run."* The tabloid New York Daily News considered the source: "The old sweetheart is a giant in his field of theoretical physics. But his political wisdom is that of a babe-in-arms. His latest antic in the political...
...long after, in 1904, Adolph Ochs made an even smarter move: he lured Night Editor Carr V. Van Anda of the New York Sun to become managing editor on the New York Times. In the next 25 years, Ochs and Van Anda made newspaper legend. It was Ochs who had set the basic pattern: "All the News That's Fit to Print." It was Van Anda, one of the great managing editors of U.S. journalistic history, who cut the cloth to the pattern. When Van Anda finally retired because of ill health in 1932 (he died...
...early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...
...engineer and importer, she went along on his European buying trips, studied every country they visited, wrote a few pieces for the Times magazine section. In 1921, when they were about to sail for Europe once again, she jotted a timid note to the late, great Carr V. Van Anda, Times managing editor, asking if she might send him some dispatches from abroad. Van Anda wired her: "Try it." She did and impressed him with her shrewd judgment of Benito Mussolini ("Italy is hearing the master's voice") when other correspondents ignored the rising Fascist leader or brushed...
...Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...