Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their daily attack on the intricate task of translating Zsa Zsa onto the pages of a book. Ex-Newsman Frank (New York Journal-American) comes to the task with impressive qualifications. A veteran ghostwriter for wartime marines and submariners (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf), longtime freelancer and magazine editor (Coronet), he now makes literary collaboration with show-business characters his well-paying specialty. After nearly 5,000 hours of listening, he in effect wrote Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon and Sheilah Graham's Beloved Infidel...
...executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
When Columnist Jack Scott got a chance last fall in a new job as editorial director to brighten the Vancouver Sun (circ. 213,000), he unleashed all of his formidable flair for spectacular stunts. He sparked exposés, played pictures high and wide, sent his football editor to Formosa to interview Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 15) and his woman's page editor to Cuba to cover the aftermath of the revolution. As Scott's fireworks crackled and city-room morale soared, Publisher Don Cromie scoffed at the doubters who wondered if a columnist could...
Starting with its next issue, the Freshman Yardling will include a four-page literary supplement entitled the "Unicorn," which will include both prose and poetry. Co-editor John L. Ernst '62 described the purpose of the "Unicorn" as an "attempt to provide an outlet for the really good freshman writers who otherwise could not publish their work...
Besides Bledsoe, the other founders of Arlington Books include Arthur B. Silverman, associate editor, and William R. Polk '51, research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, senior editor. Assisting these there is a board of 35 advisers, including six Harvard professors. Five Faculty members serve on a smaller board of editors...