Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor of the Crimson...
...cast is almost entirely responsible for surmounting the obvious obstacles and weaknesses of the play. This reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium...
...President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor, had him get the Digest's Publisher Wilfred J. Funk on the telephone, offer to bet him $10,000 against $5,000 that the News's straw vote was more accurate for New York State than the Digest's poll...
Died. Marlen Edwin Pew, 58, lifelong newshawk who in 1912 helped organize the United Press, onetime (1919-22) manager of Hearst's International News Service from which he resigned "on principle," from 1924 until his retirement last June (TIME, June 15) editor and vice president of Editor & Publisher; after a throat operation; in Manhattan...
Adventure in Manhattan (Columbia). Endowed with psychic intuition enabling him to predict crimes before they occur, an eccentric young reporter (Joel Mc-Crea) uses this gift to foil an international thief (Reginald Owen), shock his editor, captivate a young actress (Jean Arthur...