Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week for an "indefinite stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise...
...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...they have three youngsters, all bird-lovers and naturalists like dad, all until two years ago fully convinced of dad's infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet-Journalist Archibald MacLeish, whose official title is "Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...
Last week Ed Lahey summed up his and other Fellows' impressions for Editor & Publisher. His conclusion: "lt is nice going...