Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will the readers of the Hearst Examiner and the Times come to the conclusion that the President is handling two dams in one day? What about Rand McNally? Isn't there some-thing just a little unsettling in the Times's dogmatic position, as though the editor had decided to ignore subsequent elections and announced that henceforth he would refer to Mr. Roosevelt as President Chester A. Arthur? What can you do about a thing like that...
Last week Editor McAndrew found a subject to his taste in the cover of the Sept. 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Artist Norman Rockwell had depicted a young mother turning her unwilling son over to a hatchet-faced, spectacled schoolmarm, switch in hand. All the characters were dressed in costumes...
...were distinguished for nothing else, Adventure would stand apart from rival "pulps" because its Assistant Editor used to be Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis; because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent; because one of its most ardent readers was Roosevelt I; because it was the first national magazine to print the works of Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Sigismund Stribling. Last week Adventure celebrated its first quarter-century by publishing a special anniversary issue of 176 pages...
...when Theodore Dreiser was editor of all three Butterick magazines (Delineator, Designer, Woman's Magazine), it was decided to publish a "pulp" for intelligent readers. Adventure started as a monthly, was later issued three times a month, became a fortnightly in 1926. is now again a monthly. Longtime (1911-27) editor was Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, a Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio who boosted circulation to nearly 300,000 (now: 100,000), built up a unique and loyal following which included many a lawyer, statesman, physician, college professor...
...Present editor is a Harvardman named Howard V. L. Bloomfield. Under him Adventure maintains the Hoffman tradition: "A Man's Magazine. Clean and Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...