Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apropos of the last sentence in the write-up in TIME,* you might inform your Science editor that it may be amusing to note that sunspot numbers did rise from a low of 56 on June 18 to a high of 128 on June 29. The average for June 1938, however, is 97 as compared with 144 for July 1937, which appears to be the record for this cycle...
...Mary King began her successful newspaper career as assistant secretary to her husband's cousin, the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick while he was publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Before getting her present post, she had been secretary of the Tribune's Sunday department, assistant Sunday editor, Sunday editor, women's editor of Liberty when it was owned by the McCormick-Patterson interests. She and Publisher Patterson are old, old friends. Three of her four broth ers fought through the World War in the 149th Field Artillery of the 42nd (Rain bow) Division, in which...
Table Talk (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS). Former National Association of Manufacturers President Robert L. Lund, Magazine Editor George H. Soule, Connecticut Grocer Alexander H. Watt, Bronx Housewife Mrs. Robert V. Russell are Professor Lyman Bryson's first microphone dinner guests to discuss business conditions over the coffee cups...
...Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...
...plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news, no use for folding boats, surgical instruments, Union...