Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 23, the alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
When he was a Dartmouth undergraduate, Hamilton's new 39-year-old president, William Harold Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been...
...gorilla is a sluggish thinker," Nutmegaphoned Editor Tunney. "He only knows one attack. He goes after something and grabs it with his hands and then hugs it to his breast, crushing the life out of it when possible...
Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved-although that is the case-but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse...
...publishing firm. A really wonderful product. Editor 60 years old would like to groom successor. Stands the closest, scrutiny. Takes a lot of money but looks worth it. $25,000 to $50,000 needed. (That may be a lot of money...