Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the closing of the American Flying Club, many ex-War pilots and a few pre-War fliers had no place to gather. A former editor of Aviation Magazine, Baron Ladislas d'Orcy (now deceased) . . . suggested that several of the fliers could meet once a week in an Italian restaurant called Marta's at No. 75 Washington Place...
...evening I brought to the dinner Harold Hersey* at that time editor of Ace-High Magazine. The evening was a very entertaining one and quite noisy. Mr. Hersey turned to "Casey" Jones and said, "Well, you fellows certainly are noisy when you get together but you are quiet when anyone asks you to talk about your flying exploits. Just a bunch of quiet birdmen...
Shame on TIME'S People editor for dishing up as news the time-worn G. B. Shaw crack about having his funeral procession followed by his uneaten animal friends [TIME, July...
...least your editor might have taken a tip from Alex Woollcott, who tells in While Rome Burns (1934) the amusing story that when G. K. Chesterton heard of Mr. Shaw's morbid pronouncement, he professed himself willing to substitute for one of the elephants...
...coming down the street-the answer to a maiden's seance. Lula charged, threw her arms around his waist. "I'm Dik-Dik," she said. The stranger, who hailed from South Brooklyn, had a "heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth deputy assistant editor in a publishing firm. He told her his name was Mole, agreed to come to her house to live. Thus begins April Was When It Began, a complicated romance in which Dik-Dik tends a poor author's baby, breaks up Mole's engagement to a rich Irish...