Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago this week Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson put her small and pretty feet under a Hearst desk as editor & publisher of the Washington Herald. Much-traveled Mrs. Patterson had always wanted to run a Washington paper. Much-propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made...
...Washington Star, richest paper in town, sedate property of Frank Brett Noyes & family, announced last week that Assistant Managing Editor Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 41, would succeed the late, longtime Managing Editor Oliver Owen Kuhn...
Before Noon-With a letter on page one of the Portland Oregon Journal, blind Editor B. F. Irvine, whose wife does his reading and takes his dictation, announced last week his retirement, suggested his publisher for the job. Publisher Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient at 43, accepted, aware that as editor of an afternoon newspaper he will need to change his habit of rarely getting to the office before noon...
...point of Roy Davis' diplomatic career was the revolution that overtook him as U. S. Minister to Panama in 1931. Because no U. S. soldiers were called from the Canal Zone during the fracas, Minister Davis was hailed by Panamanians of every stripe, including even profane and eccentric Editor Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American. They named a lake in his honor. When Republican diplomats began trooping back home in 1933, Roy Tasco Davis, minus spats and cane, returned to Stephens...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...