Word: blum
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...published seven issues under its first owner, The Atlantic Monthly, before being sold to Manhattan Media in May 2008. The founders’ involvement with 02138 ended shortly after the magazine changed owners. Manhattan Media significantly altered the magazine’s focus, according to David J. Blum, the new editor in chief of 02138. “We were redesigning the entire magazine basically from scratch,” Blum said. Although it still addressed an audience of Harvard alumni, 02138 tried to focus more on issues of national interest, according to Blum. Previously, one of the magazine?...
...Lowdown: It's easy to call something the "crime of the century" if said century is only a decade old. What Blum doesn't seem to realize, though, is that repeating the phrase "crime of the century" two dozen times doesn't actually make it so - there are 90 years to go, brother. In the grand scheme of things, the bombing of the Times building is a fairly minor incident that has resulted in a fairly minor book...
American Lighting: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century By Howard Blum Crown...
...owner, publisher and editor, Harrison Gray Otis, detested the former) quickly blamed union terrorists. Interweaving the tales of Billy Burns, a private detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," famed attorney Clarence Darrow, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, and filmmaker D.W. Griffith, director of Birth of a Nation, Blum attempts to weave an early twentieth century murder mystery...
...Aside from a glut of straight up banal sentences - "Biddinger's great talent, Billy knew, was that at any sudden moment he could drop his easy friendliness, let his dark eyes narrow into two slits like gun holes, and turn mean." (Slits like gun holes?) - one of Blum's three main characters, D.W. Griffith, doesn't even really belong in the book. Despite Blum's best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other...