Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner...
...Sermons: "Those who have expressed concern over the editor's apparent lack of reverence will be prostrate with joy to learn that he acquired a new Bible last week. It cost $34.95, has 773,692 words in it, and it is such interesting reading we are considering asking ministers of our acquaintance to base a Sunday sermon on it one day when there is a lull upon the congregation from an overdose of economics, labor statistics, soil conservation, politics and the lagging subscription campaign for a bigger church...
...haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...
...directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...
...gentle, scholarly newsman who started in the trade at the age of eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors. He also heads Columbia...