Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest editor was interviewed at a late hour last night at the Transcript building. Asked to comment upon the returns, the editor merely shook his head sadly and stated crypticly, "It's astounding, simply astounding...
...judges were a curious assortment: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Amelia Earhart, Stratospherist Major Albert William Stevens, George Henry High of the Royal Photographic Society, Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of Eastman Kodak trade publications. To Nowell Ward of Chicago, for a picture of a handsome little boy drowsing over a book while a sort of dream picture of dueling pirates appeared over his shoulder, they finally awarded first prize of $1,000. plus the special $500 prize in the division of children's por traits...
...Editor Wallace next began to supply free articles to other magazines. According to FORTUNE, since the practice began a year-and-a-half ago. some 60 such articles have first been planted in magazines like Scribner's, Forum and Century, American Mercury, North American Review, Today The Rotarian. All Reader's Digest gets from this curious deal is the right to reprint what it had originally created. This maneuver indicates that, if necessary, Editor Wallace could furnish his large and loyal following with a readable publication without having recourse to the files of other magazines...
...Motor Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph. By 1928 the firm had grown so large that it built its own 13-story building on Philadelphia's West Washington Square, placing in the cornerstone the founder's personal Bible and a copy of the Saturday Evening Post autographed by Editor George Horace Lorimer...
NIGHT OUTLASTS THE WHIPPOORWILL -Sterling North-Macmillan ($2.50). A diffuse description of how a small Wisconsin town carried on during the War, by the literary editor of the Chicago Daily News...