Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Town Hall, Author Christopher Morley debated his brother, Editor Felix Morley of the Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine...
...journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson is his cousin by marriage, and over all the Noyes pieces appeared an explicit imprimatur from both the interested parties. U. S. editors were surprised by but had to admire...
Professionally shocking, therefore, was a statement issued in France last week by Mrs. Simpson which in effect branded the editor of the Washington Star as a gossipmonger and sob-writer of the lowest order. In Cannes, Mrs. Simpson announced to the world Press: ". . . Mrs. Simpson states that Mr. Noyes is not her cousin. . . . Neither the Duke of Windsor nor Mrs. Simpson ever gave Mr. Noyes any kind of interview. . . . Noyes was received at dinner by King Edward, but . . . the conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes...
While he was putting himself through medical school, he began to write for the comic papers-parodies, reviews, stories, plays-anything an editor would...
...Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily, read some of Chekhov's stories, was impressed, sent for him. Chekhov described their first interview: "He was very courteous and even shook hands with me. 'Do your best, young man,' he said. 'I am satisfied...