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American slang breeds faster than editors can edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...
...From a manuscript which Msgr. Sheen, associate professor of philosophy at Catholic University of America, will edit for later publication...
Some four years later, the Confederacy and most of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry were dead. But young Captain Blackford survived. He lived on long enough to edit, with his wife Susan Leigh Blackford, the letters they had exchanged during the war. Privately printed in two volumes in 1894, they are now abridged by Grandson Charles Minor Blackford...
Wiese went to New York in 1926 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin, a letter of introduction to book critic Harry Hansen and an itch to edit. Hansen introduced him to McCall's Editor Harry Payne Burton, who hired him. A few months later, when the temperamental Burton left, William B. Warner, president of McCall's board, asked young Wiese to tell him in writing what ought to be done to improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after...
...wonder-boy reputation and self-assurance, McCall's editor is a quiet, hard worker. He has a wife and four children, almost never consults his wife on the "woman's angle." He is certain that women need men to edit their magazines. Says he: "A woman has the courage to think for herself but not for other women. It takes a man to do that...