Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student, undergraduate paper of Amherst College whose most famed son was Calvin Coolidge, last week came out for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Reason: it found "Governor Landon a colorless and unconvincing candidate." Editor-in-chief of the Student is Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the G. O. P.'s 1916 Presidential nominee...
...President's Mystery (Republic). One day last year Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked to Editor Fulton Oursler of Liberty that he had a good idea for a mystery story. Smart Editor Oursler pounced on the idea, got the President's permission to have it written up for Liberty in six installments by six promine Weiman, S. S. Van Dine, John Erskine. Last November the first installment appeared, accompanied by the President's picture on the cover, an article inside explaining the story's origin. A loud editorial coup, The President's Mystery Story was snapped...
...Longest Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first production effort of shrewd, satchel-faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator...
...EDITOR OF THE CRIMSON...
...together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless...