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Freshman sports and activities will be made a part of the Album, while the Red Book will be primarily for individual pictures, and the Red Book board will not only edit their book but will constitute a Freshman board to write their section of the Album...
Woman of the Year(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was made to order for bold Katharine Hepburn. She saw to it that it was: she helped edit the script (authored by two comparatively unknown Hollywood-sprites: Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) sold it to Metro for an unprecedented $100.000, demanded and got her own leading man (Spencer Tracy) and (from a rival studio) her favorite director (George Stevens...
There was also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess...
Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion for 29 years, she edited it from a circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking...
...never repay my debt to him. When I rewrote my doctor's thesis in book form, he offered to read it, and got Ginn and Company to publish it, and he reviewed it in the "Nation." Then he asked me to edit Gray's poems, and I mention this simply because Gosse's edition was so full of blunders and we were so diverted by them that I finally asked Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then...