Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another editor who commissioned a statue, see PRESS...
...Tribune belongs to British-born John Lucius Astley-Cock. Now 74, bushy-browed, patrician Astley-Cock has been, among many things, a Cambridge University athlete, linguist, Shakespearean scholar, psychologist and church organist. At the Trib, where he has worked since 1932, his nominal title is assistant education and religion editor. But he has done his most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling list-one of the most formidable latitudes...
...country editor and city reporter, Kansas-born Forrest Warren had done his share of picture-chasing and interviewing on stories of sudden death. Then, in 1913, his wife was killed by a train, and another reporter came to interview him. Warren decided that he wanted nothing more to do with that sort of work, promised himself to try instead to write things to make people happy...
Live-wire Editor Louis Seltzer thought Cleveland needed a World War II Memorial, preferably a big one. In 1945, his promotion-conscious Press began beating Page-One drums to raise a $100,000 memorial fund, soon thumped it over the top. Seltzer then asked Sculptor Marshall
...youth, reaching upward toward his God, is a symbol of the souls of the men who fought and died. It represents their hope for a world free from war, pestilence and fear." Last week, all further work on the statue was temporarily stopped. If public opinion insisted, Editor Seltzer was prepared to edit the statue. Said he: "We don't want to impose anything on the people they don't want...