Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren County folk had "fired guns into...
Realistic AP General Manager Kent Cooper understands that many photo graphs cannot be spontaneous, but upon investigating the situation through the AP's promising 26-year-old Atlanta Photo Editor William Boring he quickly de cided that initiative had o'erleaped itself. Last week he fired both Messrs. Boring and Keen. Apologetically AP members told their readers : "Investigation revealed the picture was not genuine, but was a picture posed by the photographer, conveyed a false impression, and did not truthfully represent conditions...
...World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor for two years before his first Presidential nomination. When the new century began Publisher Hitchcock was badly in debt, but when he died three years ago his paper was worth $8,000,000, 58% of which became the property of Son-in-Law Doorly and his family...
Success of the World-Herald's new era depends not only on conservative Publisher Doorly ("Don't spend something you haven't got") and his son Gilbert, the paper's assistant managing editor, but also upon Publisher Doorly's teammate, short, paunchy Pulitzer Prizewinner (1919) Editor Harvey Newbranch who writes lengthy, lucid, politically-effective editorials, dictates many of the paper's policies and has for a son-in-law Congressman Harry Buffington Coffee...
...Mildred Riddle, a fellow teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however, he knew the ropes and all was clear sailing. Working on the side, he finished Columbia second in his class and editor of its Law Review in 1925, easily landed a job with the crack Wall Street law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. Planning to return to Yakima in two years, he set to work learning the fascinating intricacies of Wall Street finance and law, meanwhile teaching at Columbia...