Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper is Rachel Kollock McDowell of the New York Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff...
...know the language, the Vatican etiquette. I was just a little nobody wanting to see the one supreme figure in Christendom. Yes, it was a lesson in humility. Here was about the only place in the world where being religious news editor of what is considered one of the world's greatest newspapers did not count...
...meeting smelled of money were liberal papers like The Christian Century and Zion's Herald. The latter weekly printed an editorial which cited "forged telegrams" and "whispering campaigns" as "the diabolical methods used by the utility companies in their efforts to forestall legislation affecting them." Last week its editor, Lewis Oliver Hartman, received and printed a letter from Utilitarian Denman...
...general aspects of a candidate's work will be outlined by Arthur A. Balantine Jr. '36, president at the Wednesday evening meeting in the Building and the specific details of the work of for each board will be described by Stanley C. Salmen '36, Managing Editor; John S. Hartwell '36, acting Business Manager; Henry V. Poor '36, Editorial Chairman, and Philip L. Nightingale '37, Photographic Chairman...
Except for a decade as editor of the "Atlantic" Bliss Perry has passed his life in "the pleasantness and most influential of academic paths." Professor of English Literature at Williams, then at Princeton, then at Harvard, he gained a reputation as one of the best-loved members of the coterie of Great Names in American Literary life. In his biography, published now in Bliss Perry's seventy fifth year, he re-creates the mellow charm of those years of his life...