Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evolved from a small weekly (Shop and Play) and the story was that it was being put out on the pooled resources of men who lost their jobs when the long-established Tennesseean (a. m.) and Banner (p. m.) consolidated all but their editorial departments. Even well-posted Editor & Publisher was not aware of the Times's existence for three months...
Last week's broadcast of medical plain speaking opened a series of four called Why Not Have A Baby? The programs feature an obstetrician (anonymous for reasons of medical ethics) questioned by Special Features Director James Vandiveer (himself an expectant father), KFI-KECA Editor Jose Rodriguez (father of three). On the first broadcast the interviewers asked about prenatal care, got straight medical advice on sterility, the best age for child bearing, paternal and maternal hygiene, diet during pregnancy, danger of miscarriage...
Since Quincy Howe became editor of Simon & Schuster, that industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...School for Dictators (Harper, $2.50) is not written for those who like to play games. Tall, dark, 38-year-old Ignazio Silone, whose two novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) have been called the sum total of modern Italian literature, has had intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...
...Editor of the Crimson...