Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naturalized. And most people of substance, whether in a foreign land or not, make wills. Among Italian noncitizens in the U. S. who, if they have made no wills, have no heirs, might have enriched Italy's treasury had the decision gone the other way, are Count Villa, silkman: Editor Luigi Barzini of Carriere a"America; President Siero Susi of the Manhattan branch of the Italian Commercial Bank...
...turn of the century found the young firm of Doubleday, Page & Co. about to publish a new magazine. Partner Walter Hines Page was to be editor. The magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...
Walter Hines Page died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World...
...made a full professor. Air-literary as well as air-minded, he has writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...