Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help him tackle the great issue of "peace or war, freedom or tyranny, life or death," Streit has gathered an impressive array of aides, for most of whom the new monthly is a labor of love. His contributing editors: Owen J. Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W. Davenport, onetime managing editor of FORTUNE and Willkie campaign coordinator; Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College; A. Powell Davies, clergyman-author (The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time...
Marcia (The Valley of Decision) Davenport spoke up to complain of the occupational hazards of authorship. Leading her list of 22 complaints: constipation, headache, backache, eyeache, nerves, ill-timed insomnia and somnolence, gas and hips...
...only man on Collier's who also does the same job for its sister publications, American and Woman's Home Companion, Gurney Williams okays 30 to 50 cartoons a week, pays $40 to $150 apiece. His new boss, Walter Davenport (TIME, July 22), doesn't see them until they are in print. To keep his contributors on the beam Williams edits a galley-proof monthly called Gagazine (circ. 150), full of chitchat, advice and an occasional gag too rich for Collier's blood. His third updating of the famed Collier's Collects Its Wits album...
...hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be 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...
...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's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory tower...