Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Digest's editor, James H. Thompson, initialed a three-page section called "Topics and Comment...
...newspaper which Claudia and her amorous Cardinal helped to sell in 1909 was Il Popolo, edited by the fiery Socialist-patriot Cesare Battisti in the city of Trent, then Austrian, but ceded to Italy after the War. Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...
...Editor Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post) prized rare glassware as he left the Majestic. Particularly proud was he of a drinking glass engraved with the words, "To Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral." Below, an engraved likeness of the Dean. Below, "In a Bumper...
...Editor Erskine Gwynne, the man with aplomb, has a reputation for picaresque adventure. His encounter with Bride Peggy Hopkins Joyce (TIME, May 7) called attention to the fact that he is the expatriate nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, that his collegiate witticism undeniably sets the tone for his publishing venture, The Boulevardier. This magazine appears monthly, is written in English and provides the Parisian public with reading matter substantially equivalent to an informal combination of Town Topics and The New Yorker. Aping particularly the spirit of the last-named, it is not written for the old lady...