Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roving Reporter Walter Davenport had never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
Teachers scheduled to speak tonight are William H. Burton, lecturer on the Principles of Teaching; Abram Collier, member of the Wellesley School Board; Clifford McAvoy, educational director of the United Electrical Workers; and Alan B. Overstreet, lecturer on Government...
Fortunately, Cornell has graduated most of its varsity boat, including Van Wrangle, Morehouse, and Collier, three of the East's best Oras. But the performance of Cornell's Freshmen here a year ago indicates that there are plenty of capable young men to carry...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...
Aged (85), ailing Joseph Palmer Knapp and his Publication Corp. (Alco-Gravure, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.) control This Week. But on editorial affairs, says Nichols, "I have to please 24 bosses"-the editors of the subscribing newspapers (which pay $10 to $15 per 1,000 copies, depending on the size of the supplement, and share its profits, around $3 per 1,000 circulation in 1948). To please them, he shuns anything controversial...