Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vermonters who are talking on the negative side are Ralph W. Pickard '37, Glenn L. Leggett '40, and John F. Barrow '37. Pickard is editor of his college paper...
Most famed of British annuals is probably the children's Chatterbox, which for well-brought-up English and American moppets has long been a Christmas staple. This year Chatterbox was issued by London's Dean & Son, Ltd., who acquired it from the family of its late Editor Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton. Founder of Chatterbox was the Rev. Erskine Clark who started it in St. Paul's shadow in 1866 passed it on to Editor Darton when he died in 1901. In the monthly Chatterbox, Canon Clark hoped to get children's minds off "bad stories...
...annual field. Celebrating its birthday, Manhattan's 90-year-old Town & Country came out with a handsome 204-page issue, largest in its history, billed as America's "First Christmas Annual." Featured was a nostalgic article on old-time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color spread of "The First Christmas" by Gentile da Fabriano in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...
Last week Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic openly wrote to William Randolph Hearst: "My immediate purpose ... is to suggest that you retire from active journalism. You are an elderly man. . . . Why not turn over the reins to someone else and enjoy the sunset years? . . . Things are going rather badly for your daily newspapers. . . . Even in cities where your papers have shown slight [circulation] gains, their competitors have run away from them by many thousands. . . In advertising revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude...
...lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball, is slated to be women's editor of the PI. If Mrs. Boettiger takes this job, she will be the third member of the Roosevelt family in Hearst employ. Brother Elliott is a vice president of Hearst Radio...