Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime of plump, complacent, witty, dynamic Editor Leon Daudet is "defaming the police." He has defamed almost every high official in France at one time or another in L'Action Francaise, to the huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...
...great, the irrepressible Editor Daudet reacted in a manner far different. He might have called a meeting of the French Royalists who are as strong as or stronger than the Communists. Instead, he took pen and concocted for L'Action Française a leading article so full of sly, telling digs at personalities in the Government, so meaty with tidbits of Daudeterie, that Paris, figuratively speaking, exploded with forgiving mirth...
Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter and only child of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, etc.) and wife of Edward W. Bok (onetime editor Ladies' Home Journal), last week permitted her name to come out of quiet domestic retirement in two announcements. To the Curtis Institute of Music which Mrs. Bok founded in Philadelphia three years ago with $500,000, she had given seven millions, bringing its endowment to $12,500,000. As President of the Institute, she had promoted the head of the piano department to the head...
Here Mr. Bok shows himself as the dynamic young editor-secretary of the successful publisher. He and the publisher are in Europe...
...lead to mutual thoughts. I was more than curious to know what was in these letters, but of course I could not ask and he ventured no information, as it had never for a moment occurred to him that anything save the most casual acquaintance existed between his editor and his daughter...