Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stringfellow Barr. a stocky, redheaded, well-dressed intellectual who was long one of the University of Virginia's most popular lecturers but is best known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea...
...Thirty-two years ago the Ladies' Home Journal began the first crusade against venereal disease ever to appear in a magazine of general circulation. In a few short months it brought more than 75,000 cancellations of subscriptions. Yet Edward Bok, editor of the Journal, persisted in the face of threats of physical violence, business ruin, social ostracism...
...present editors of the Ladies' Home Journal, Bruce & Beatrice Gould (man & wife), were unable to find any quotes from the Bok editorials to run with the de Kruif-Parran article to prove that Bok said it first many years ago.' But it can fairly be said that Editor Bok pitched the first ball, even though it was a roundhouse curve...
Died. Morrill Goddard, 70, editor of Hearst's American Weekly, author of What Interests People and Why; of heart failure; in Naskeag, Me. (see p. 26). He started the Sunday supplement for Pulitzer's old New York World, was hired with his entire staff by Hearst, lately earned $156,000 yearly salary. Native of Maine, he was a master mariner...
...Frank Arthur Vanderlip, 72, one-time (1897-1901) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, onetime (1909-19) President of New York's National City Bank; after an operation; in Manhattan. Born of poor parents in Aurora, Ill., Banker Vanderlip was first a newspaperman in Aurora and Chicago. While associate editor of the Chicago Economist he was called upon to advise financiers in the panic of 1896. His handling of the panic won him his Treasury Department job. From 1919 to 1924 Banker Vanderlip made repeated trips abroad studying international finance. He predicted a world financial catastrophe unless all countries studied...