Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright red tie and pocket handkerchief, cowboy hat. He returned to his office, wrote that President Hill "looks more...
...Rumford Press) also produce Your Life. To launch the new monthly, Mr. Funk formed Kingsway Press Inc., Scarsdale, N. Y., with part of the reported $200.000 proceeds from the sale of Literary Digest, made Brother-in-Law Bert C. Miller president. Vice president is Douglas E. Lurton. onetime supervising editor for Fawcett Publications, and managing editor of Literary Digest during its last year. Edited by Douglas Lurton, Your Life is a handbook of inspirational prescriptions for the sick-in-heart, is neatly cataloged to cover Life. Health, Love. Fortune, Charm. Children, Conversation and Words. Sample suggestions...
...company of such Fawcett magazines as For Men and Daring Detective it is because Publisher Fawcett long suppressed his desire to educate as well as entertain. Last October Publisher Fawcett got to thinking during a transcontinental train trip, stopped at Santa Fe and dispatched to Fawcett Publications Managing Editor Ralph Daigh a day-letter naming and outlining the structure of Photo-Facts...
...Hastily Editor Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
Nervous and physical strain of a 200,000 circulation first edition over, Photo-Facts Editor Delano found himself in a hospital last week. There he can read in Editor Lurton's Your Life: "The high-strung worrier can actually fret himself into serious organic diseases such as stomach ulcers...