Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
...editor and publisher of Confidential Hy Steirman, said that the story was written under a pseudonym. "The Holiday Club," he explained, "is not a club like the Porcellian Club, but rather the name for a sort of clique." Confidential's information on the Holiday Club stops about a year to a year and a half ago," Steirman added...
...hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour...
...advice. They usually get it, sometimes right between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...
...have been branded, an integrationist," said South Carolina-born Harry Scott Ashmore, executive editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. "I call myself an upholder of law and order." While Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving...