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...Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
...little known facts. In the process they have an opportunity to meet the more interesting people of the ares, from college presidents to burlesque queens. They gain experience in feature and sports writing, as well as straight news reporting. Every member of the board has an opportunity to edit a paper, becoming the best-informed man in the College the following morning, or to brush up on world events by editing the Associated Press column...
...Army discovered his versatility quickly. In 18 months of service life "Mal" had to work in Special Service in languages, lead a Wac chorus, act as a camp movie critic, edit a camp newspaper, and do a regularly-scheduled radio broadcast for the Army...
...adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make the effort...
...Englanders for eight generations, the man who speaks with the voice of New England was born in exile-a continent's width away in San Francisco.* His father, a brilliant, erratic rebel who graduated high in his class at Harvard, had run away from a law career to edit a San Francisco newspaper, and became a Republican-hating Democrat. Frost remembers his father as "a wild man" who gave him many a whipping, remembers eating many of his lunches in saloons while his father talked politics at the bar. Young Robert was nervous, could not sleep, suffered from biliousness...