Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to the correct level. One reporter on a Boston paper sent in a column of involved technicalities, featured by a formula containing a number of "n'a", "x'a", and "y's". The first edition carried the story, but it was rewritten for succeeding editions after the city editor had called up and asked, "Say, what the hell is this stuff, anyway. We don't know what it means...
Occasionally the opposite happened as when a science editor tried to out argue someone who was explaining a paper that he had spent a good part of his life studying. Often offhand remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered...
...owner of Pathfinder was bustling, 48-year-old Managing Editor Sevellon Brown of the Providence Journal and Bulletin. Inheriting a share in Pathfinder last February from his father-in-law, the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised...
...parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite of microscope) by which he imagined the 72 combined brains focused as one instrument upon...
...Harvard Class of 1911. his curiosity was aroused. Sportswriter Tunis, who is not only a prime authority on tennis but the author of many a thoughtful magazine survey of U. S. education, inspected 540 more such intimate autobiographies. Likewise stirred was his Classmate Laurence Leathe Winship, scholarly Sunday editor of the Boston Globe, who on John Tunis' suggestion sent the Class of 1911 a supplementary questionnaire. From these sources and from his own wide acquaintance in Manhattan's Harvard Club, John R. Tunis last week presented a full-length picture of the successes, failures, aspirations and accomplishments...