Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoover had discussed the impending series with one of her advertisers in an attempt to bring pressure on the Post to kill the story. Hoover told the advertiser, said Dolly, that the Post was angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
...third Ford Hall Forum Program of the season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...
James Manchester Robinson '61, editor of Identity, claims that police have forced the removal of posters advertising this year's first issue. According to Robinson, an MDC policeman, Francis Cleary, forced him and Jonathan Lyman Rigg '61 to cease distributing the posters last Saturday and to remove those already posted, charging that Michael Conde's drawings were "pornographic...
...importance of this cold war objective to the Russians was clear: the offstage direction by A.N. Shelepin, chief of the U.S.S.R.'s security organization, the large financial stake, and the presence in Vienna of Khrushchev's son-in-law, the editor of Isvestia. The heavy Soviet news coverage indicated the full scope of their aim to further Communist claims before, during and after the Festival. While prior festivals were blatantly offensive, this one offered the drug of "Peace and Friendship...
...both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...