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...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...
...edit The American Home, Mr. Eaton shrewdly selected blonde, energetic young Mrs. Jean Austin, able Doubleday, Doran underling. Mrs. Austin gave The American Home the editorial slant which shot it to success...
...family feeling died hard with Lady Talbot. Before letting these heirlooms out of her hands she conned every page, neatly inked out every passage, every word that she considered indelicate. Her labor of love cost experts a year and a half to delete the deletions. To edit this treasure trove for the press proud Collector Isham imported scholarly Author Geoffrey Scott (Portrait of Zelide) who died in harness, leaving the long job for Yale's Frederick A. Pottle to finish...
Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, and director of the Harvard-Yanching Institute, James R. Ware, lecturer on Chinese, and Charles S. Gardner '21, instructor in Chinese, will edit the quarterly...
...long as immature youngsters with a flare for the sensational are encouraged to report talks on technical subjects, you will always run the danger of printing a lot of fiction, but more serious sins might be avoided if those on your staff who edit copy and write headlines would assume tentatively that professors in the university are neither fools nor knaves and certain from portraying them as such without first getting from them either conscious or unconscious continuation. Thomas Reed Powell