Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Herman Bernstein, 58, onetime (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Albania, founder and first editor of The Day (Jewish daily), brother of Author Hillel Bernstein (L'Affaire Jones); of heart disease; in Sheffield, Mass. In his The History of a Lie, Herman Bernstein exposed as a forgery the famed "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" (TIME, Nov. 12). He sailed on Henry Ford's peace ship, later sued Mr. Ford for anti-Semitic libels in the Dearborn Independent, got an apology...
...literary life has no official academy to bestow honors and awards on authors struggling for recognition, it has in Edward Joseph O'Brien an editor who performs much the same function each year with conscientious enthusiasm. For 21 years Editor O'Brien has offered his annual collections of the best short stories, exhaustive, painstaking volumes which include, in addition to the texts of the best stories, a Roll of Honor of several hundred more, an index of distinctive short stories-each title neatly tagged with one, two or three stars to indicate the precise degree of its distinction...
...belief in human reason in a world irrational and lost. Zena suddenly left him. In England he met suffragettes and careerists trying to be "modern," had a troubled love affair with a girl whose independence grew more & more neurotic. He met Mussolini when the future dictator was a Socialist editor, heard Jaures speak, listened to Balfour discuss European affairs. Although such contacts seem plausible enough for one of Julian's station in life, the famed historic figures seem even less real than Author Briffault's imaginary characters, who are often little more than mouthpieces for ideas and opinions...
...When Editor O'Brien began his work, Sherwood Anderson was almost unknown and Fanny Hurst got into an early collection with an ecstatic little tale about Russian refugees who found New York a haven from Tsarist oppression. Struggling against the limitations imposed on authors by the conventions of popular magazine fiction, Editor O'Brien called attention to the work that was then appearing in little literary magazines, boldly declared that the best short stories were being written by writers that few people had ever heard of. He reprinted the early work of Waldo Frank and Ruth Suckow, seemed...
...21st collection finds Editor O'Brien viewing the future of the short story with profound alarm. The year 1934 was a bad one, in which only 200 stories were found worthy of three stars, but it was "a notable" year for new writers, producing Dorothy McCleary, Allan Seager and William Saroyan. Editor O'Brien finds the short story threatened by the developing political interests of editors and critics, utters a dark warning against Fascism - Fascism from the left as well as from right-and complains that there are now too many little magazines...