Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knotty problems had caused the delay. Mixed up with the idea of a magazine for insiders, Publisher Smart had another idea of a magazine for the underdog, militantly antifascist. First editor hired was Jay Cooke Allen, whose scoops as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune qualified him to edit a magazine for insiders. Off to Europe he hustled last summer to rake up new background, returned and began to gather a staff of militant liberal writers...
Meantime the names of two others, Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) and Novelist Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) were accounted as working editors. But de Kruif had plenty on his hands helping Franklin Roosevelt fight poliomyelitis, and Hemingway spent almost all of Ken's, eleven months' gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions...
Offering $100 to $1,000 an article (although the higher fees were rare), Editor Gingrich warned contributors: "An inside story of how a baby-carriage factory works would be dull and of no interest. But an inside story of a baby-carriage factory that is actually making machine guns on the sly -that's more like it." When it appears, March 31, Ken is to be a large, slick-paper magazine of Esquire flamboyance, liberally daubed with color and sporting "a full size picture magazine as just one of its several sections...
...Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans of a Chicagoan. But Dick Whitney was a Morgan broker. He was the President of the New York Stock Exchange for five years. ''The terrible thing about the Whitney scandal.'' wrote Financial Editor Leslie Gould of the New York Journal & American, "is . . . that the broker was the White Knight of the financial district. Whitney was Sir Richard when he went into battle in shining armor against the 1929 crash and again when he stood up and defied Washington and the reformers. Now it turns...
...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...