Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grays 41--James B. Ames '32, magnacum laude, of Wayland; CRIMSON editor and secretary of the Student Council...
...editor admits that what has been chosen is not even as complete as he had hoped on account of copyright restrictions and realizes that some of the pieces are not good poetry. But the propriety of the choice is defended on the ground that such work is indicative of the American mind if it were well received at the time of publication...
...Corp. in 1925, soon had 165,000 of the first, four of the second. Designed as a sophisticated reprint of fiction classics of the past, it seemed to find a cosy niche in public fancy, had in culture-soaked Henry Wysham Lanier, son of Southern Poet Sidney Lanier, an editor well equipped to keep it there...
...when his brother Charles withdrew financial support from the magazine in 1928, Editor Lanier left. There followed a long, vague tinkering with Golden Book's editorial policy, a steady decline in its subscribers. The magazine changed editors four times, page size twice. Its editorial formula wavered to include radical political speeches, varying proportions of contemporary stories and, of late, heavily Rabelaisian fiction. Advertising management was equally unsteady, equally botched. By 1935 these faults had cut the subscriptions...
Meanwhile, Author Francis Rufus Bellamy, a onetime executive editor of The New Yorker, had conceived a variation of the Golden Book formula, produced it last May in Fiction Parade-a slight magazine reprinting current fiction. Last week it had only 30,000 subscribers, but it had one less rival. Proudly Editor Bellamy announced that, beginning October, his magazine will reprint old classics along with new, will carry no advertising, will be particularly attentive to poetry and art, will be named Fiction Parade & Golden Book...