Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest paper, The People, is something like a light lady who has married and tried to settle down. It blends sensationalism with folksiness, makes a try at teaching readers how to cook, dance, cure athlete's foot, play the horses and read the stars.* But 58-year-old Editor Harry Ainsworth, who has raised The People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled in on THE WORST...
...critics of the Sundays, 61-year-old Editor Arthur G. Waters of News of the World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...
...World War II, The People's Astrologer Lyndoe was so accurate in his forecasts of coming military events that the censors persuaded the editor to drop dates from hot predictions...
...Princess Margaret's mouth. There was only one thing wrong with this exclusive shot: it was a fake. The Post had reached into its files, pulled out a three-year-old picture, doctored it to fit the news, and run it without caption or explanation. Said Executive Editor Paul Sann, who thought up the idea: "We haven't had any kicks-not even from the princess...
...fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads his way through these overworked signposts of character and makes each of the "Screaming Eagles" a rounded, tough human being. Ruthlessly demanding authentic gesture and movement...