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...Bruce Bliven had been on the editorial board of the leftward-looking New Republic for 23 years, and the magazine's actual editor for 16 of them. Last week he assumed the title of Editorial Director, waited in his 15th-floor Manhattan office for his successor to show up. The new boss came in three hours late. Said Bliven: "Hello, Henry. Come on in and I'll show you your office." Henry Wallace, politician-at-large, had acquired a lever (circ. 45,000) and a place to stand, and would now try to move the world...
...chief leader writer he chose slender, 35-year-old John M. D. Pringle, an Oxford graduate and foreign affairs expert who had been with the Guardian and the BBC before the war. To expand his U.S. coverage, handled for 19 years by the New Republic's Editor Bruce Bliven, he hired BBCman Alistair Cooke, now the Guardian's U.N. correspondent...
...nervous, grey-thatched Treasurer Daniel Mebane, a good friend of Earl's brother Bill who was onetime president and business manager of the Communist Daily Worker. When Earl Browder returned from his mysterious mission to Moscow (TIME, July 8), Earl and NR Editor Bruce Bliven went into a huddle. Bliven outlined a series of controversial subjects Browder might write about, some of them designed to indicate what Browder was up to. Browder crossed out all the tough ones, agreed to write about such subjects as what the U.S. must do to win friendship with the U.S.S.R. He will...
...tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...
...know what it's going to say.") He hired a bevy of cartoonists, brought in a new managing editor. Some of his readers, as a result, have seen symptoms of schizophrenia in the magazine, with the young blood contrasting-if not conflicting-with such old "conservative liberals" as Bliven, Stark Young, George Soule and Malcolm Cowley...