Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press. ... A new U.S. at War writer (also a Nieman Fellow) was our Seattle correspondent in 1937, left to take his bride on a pre-Hitler honeymoon that included almost every country in Europe, later worked as assistant city editor on the Seattle Times and as Army correspondent for Collier's in seven western states. . . . And still another new writer was head of our Detroit News Bureau, a job he prepared for by 12 years' work on the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Detroit Mirror, and the Detroit Times (in his spare time recently he turned out a mystery story...
Divorced. Herbert Asbury, 53, slummer in the pasts of U.S. cities (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter), associate editor of Collier's; by Helen Hahn Asbury, 41, Manhattan advertising executive, sister of repatriated Orientalist Emily Hahn; after 16 years of marriage; in Mexico...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...
Some notables in both parties showed reluctance to campaign for their own sides. Wendell Willkie, still abed in a Manhattan hospital for a physical checkup, discussed for Collier's the "inadequate" Negro planks in both party platforms. Minnesota's G.O.P. Senator Joseph H. Ball reported his fear that Tom Dewey was not internationalist-minded enough. Said Senator Ball: "I would violate my own deepest conviction if I were at this time ... to campaign for Governor Dewey." And at a newsmen's luncheon in Manhattan, ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker cracked: "Like Farley, I'm still a Democrat...
Round-faced, 210-pound Crockett Johnson dropped his real name, David Johnson Leisk (pronounced Lisk), because he got tired of spelling it out. He began Barnaby while contributing a weekly wordless strip to Collier's. Barnaby is frankly addressed to adults, often surprises Johnson by appealing to children too. The reason, he guesses, is that children like to side with Barnaby Baxter against Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, archetypical pragmatists against whose earthbound minds the Barnaby strip is directed...