Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARTHUR W. LUFKIN Editor...
With Mr. White gone, and until Mr. Thurber's return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
Muni considers himself a very funny fellow, earnestly citing quips, practical jokes and an incident in which he jumped into a swimming pool with his clothes on. At his own insistence Warners allowed him to make a comedy called Hi, Nellie in which he played a wisecracking city editor. The experiment was not repeated...
...Louis Dembitz Brandeis-Louis (11), Alice (9), and Frank Gilbert (7) -started on Cape Cod a hectographed newspaper called Chatham Chatter. Price, 1?. Contents of the first issue: by Alice, a tribute to Amelia Earhart; by Frank, "The Slavery Question and How It Changed the United States"; by Grand-editor Louis, editorials. Excerpts: "The modern child grows up with guns surrounding him. Guns to the right of him, guns to the left of him, guns in front of him, volley and thunder. This is one of the main reasons of wars...