Word: editing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raised in St. Louis, the daughter of a failed inventor, she put herself through Washington University ('44) by working 48 hours a week testing machine guns at a local arms plant. After earning an M.A. in political science from Radcliffe in 1945, she returned to St. Louis to edit a conservative newsletter...
...dictating the story from the Kennedy kitchen to two of my favorite editors, Ralph Graves and David Maness, who, as good editors, despite a ballooning overtime printing bill, were nonetheless trying to edit and change phrases as I dictated. Maness observed that maybe I had too much of "Camelot" in the dispatch. Mrs. Kennedy had come in at that moment; she overheard the editor trying to edit me, who had already so heavily edited her. She shook her head. She wanted Camelot to top the story. Camelot, heroes, fairy tales, legends were what history was all about. Maness caught...
...gray, with a static layout and a paucity of eye-catching pictures. The Trib often seemed overloaded with wire copy and canned columnists, undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...
...noon." It is also the exquisite torture of having to spend more time selling stories than writing them, of waiting months until the magazines print-or pay for-them and of passing long hours with only a typewriter for company. Says Marilyn Bethany, who quit freelancing last year to edit a home-decorating quarterly: "The worst part is the loneliness...
...also be several movable cameras to provide different angles, but some fear that the whole system, if run by Government employees, would blinker off the surrounding atmospherics. The cameras would, in fact, provide a kind of visual Congressional Record-except of course that members would not be permitted to edit their remarks, as they often do now before the Record is printed. The TV tapes, or a live cable feed, would be made available to the commercial and public broadcast networks to edit and broadcast as they wished...