Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT PUBLISHER GORDON GRAY [TIME, SEPT. 12] CONTAINS AN ERROR WHICH I REGRET. WHEN THE TWIN CITY SENTINEL CALLED CIGARETTES "COFFIN TACKS," I OBJECTED TO WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE A POOR CHOICE OF A HEADLINE, BUT AT NO TIME DID I SUGGEST THAT THE MANAGING EDITOR BE FIRED...
...Britain's political Satirist George Orwell, 46 (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four), long ailing with tuberculosis, announced his engagement to Sonia Brownell, 30, assistant editor of the highbrow Horizon, for which he has written an occasional article. No date was set, but friends hinted at a hospital wedding...
...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
...including six practicing newsmen. At first, teacher and class fought in French on philosophical terrain: What is truth? What is objectivity? When Miss Efron tried to explain the difference between opinion and fact, gossip and news, her students replied that she was "stifling the Haitian soul." Later, "Editor" Efron sent her reporters scurrying out on assignments. Says she proudly:"They got kicked out of the best places in town...
...Authentic? They also brought back to class more news than was being printed in the daily papers. Before long, the six professionals were unashamedly cribbing from their classmates' homework. After six months, Editor Efron decided that her newshawks were ready to put out their own model newspaper. Printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and distributed to government offices, labor unions, political parties and cafés, Vol. 1, No. 1 of Journal caused a national uproar...