Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only In America (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) tells the story of Harry Golden, editor (The Carolina Israelite) and author of the bestselling Only in America. The stage difficulties involved are immediate and persistent. The adapters really have little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form...
Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...
Khrushchev established Son-in-Law Adzhubei on the staff of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, watched approvingly while Adzhubei, rising with predictable swiftness from cub reporter to editor, turned the doctrinaire voice of Communist youth into a reasonably lively paper. In reward, Adzhubei last May was named editor of Izvestia (circ. 1.800,000), official organ of the Soviet government-and it, too, began taking on a new look...
Kirkland: Yardling, News Editor; Freedom Council; HYDC, Vice-President, President; Historical Society; PBH, Tutors Committee, "Deacon's Testament" editor...
Leverett: Freshman Glee Club; Freshman Crew; Varsity Crew; Pre-Law Society; Social Relations Society; House Committee, Secretary; "The Leverett News" editor; Combined Charities Drive, House Captain...