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...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's free-swinging ways too much...
Collier's got a new editor last week. To succeed the late Charles Colebaugh, a Collier's man for 27 years who died last week, Publisher William Ludlow Chenery chose a comparative newcomer: 42-year-old Henry La Cossitt. Big-shouldered, vigorous Henry La Cossitt has been Collier's managing editor for a mere four months, has been associated with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (as fiction editor of the American Magazine) only three years...
...Editor La Cossitt is no tyro in his field. Trained at the University of Missouri's journalism school, he was a reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...Since La Cossitt arrived, the American's circulation has risen from...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...
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