Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leisure had never been Editor Lorimer's lot. When in 1898 successful Ladies' Home Journal publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 for the Satevepost (circulation: 1,800) it was a dull little rehash of British journals. Yale-educated young Lorimer, a modestly paid 30-year-old reporter on the Boston Post and only three years out of Armour & Co.'s Chicago glue works, heard of the purchase, hastily wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot...
...parishioner of his father's, had promised to make George Lorimer a millionaire, that he gained the experience which enabled him to select the conservative articles on business, the personal experiences and success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique. By 1908 Editor Lorimer's magazine had passed 1,000,000 circulation...
...John Cowles took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...
Though the faculty is large and well-paid (up to $9,600 for a full professor), it boasts few big names. Outstanding are Short Story Editor Blanche Colton Williams, Philosophers Harry Allen Overstreet and Morris Raphael Cohen, Artist Joseph Cummings Chase. Campus life such as exists in private and State universities is lacking, but City College is trying to supply this with a house plan, Hunter with teacher-student teas...
Alfred Reeves is a neat, bustling little man of some 60 years who holds the distinction of having been the first U. S. automobile editor (on the New York Mail in 1902). Then he became sales-manager of the long-extinct U. S. Motor Co. and in 1913 took over the management of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, then called the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus occupied ever since, he has seen the A. M. A. grow into one of the nation's most potent trade groups. One of Al Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice...