Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two years at Yale's School of Fine Arts, Harry McGuire was called home to Denver, made editor of Outdoor Life, potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...
...Outdoor Life was taken over by Popular Science. Editor McGuire was left with nothing to do. Alone and bored during the long winter evenings in his Mt. Morris farmhouse, he decided to relieve the tedium by publishing a magazine of his own, no sportsman's forum like hearty Outdoor Life but a sophisticated journal to which his friends could contribute. At first he toyed with the idea of bidding for moribund Vanity Fair, then decided to think out an entirely new editorial formula, present it in a brand-new publication...
Last week it was revealed that to picture and report the contemporary scene entirely from the viewpoint of satire was Editor McGuire's big idea. On newsstands went 41,000 copies of a glossy new 35? magazine named Ringmaster, The World in Caricature. Vol. I, No. 1 offered the writings of John V. A. Weaver, John R. Tunis, Stanley Walker, the drawings of Peggy Bacon, William Cropper, David Low, Mitchell Siporin...
William Huenekens, the chairman of the Editorial Board, was in charge of this competition. As Hugh MacNeil, the Photo Editor, and Irvin Michelman, Art Editor, are both ill, the results of the competition in these two boards has not yet been decided...
...Editor of the Crimson...