Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's roving political reporter, Walter Davenport had a free hand to go where he pleased, and, within limits, to write what he wanted. He liked the job. He also liked his farm in Winsted, Conn., which had a lot of shade maples and easy chairs under them. But last week, 57-year-old Walter Davenport became editor of Collier's, the eleventh in a line which has included Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. His immediate predecessor, Henry La Cossitt, was out after just two years; the brass thought he was tightening Collier...
...called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed if you found another job," Davenport went to Collier...
...covered every major political campaign since, and a lot of minor ones, writing them up in the chatty, offhand Collier's style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson...
...prospective magazine with 212 bosses (and more on the way) was settling down in its new quarters. In an antiquated building on Manhattan's West 45th Street which used to house a speakeasy, Jerome Ellison, 38, onetime managing editor of Collier's and Liberty, last week was dummying one of the most talked-about publishing ventures of the year. Its name: Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc. Its aim: to publish a pocket-sized, "liberal," adless, 25? monthly, owned and operated by headliners of U.S. arts & letters...
...newspaper job when he was a gawky 16-year-old Kansas kid. He has written about 80,000,000 words since then. Some of them were very good. As William Randolph Hearst's top sports-byliner, he could make a silk purse out of a cauliflower ear. When Collier's ballyhooed a Runyon short story on its cover, newsstand sales sometimes went up 60,000 copies. But last week, at 65, Damon Runyon looked back at his career, and said he wished he had been playing Pagliacci instead...