Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Lawrence, editor of US. News and World Report. He has presented information to the people against the subversive influence of those who would impose their sociological theories on us in matters which neither the people nor their elected congress have made law. SIDNEY T. H. CARLSON Tallahassee...
Losing Her Heart. Three days after election, both Publisher Schiff and Editor James A. Wechsler took to print to explain what had happened. Said Dolly to "Dear Reader": "Time was running out. No one else had dared or cared to refute Harriman's unfair insinuation that Rockefeller was hostile to Israel." Said Editor Wechsler, in a signed editorial: "Mrs. Schiff and I spent many hours over a period of two months discussing the decision . . . Much as I differ with her final conclusion, I know it was not an easy one for her." At the point where some...
These public apologias told only part of the story. Publisher Schiff, who subscribes to the philosophy that politics is an affair of the heart, has lost her heart before in the pages of her paper. In 1948, when Editor Theodore O. Thackrey, who was also Publisher Schiff's husband (her third of four), endorsed Henry Agard Wallace for President, his wife quarreled in print for twelve weeks over his choice, wound up by endorsing Republican Thomas Dewey, firing Ted Thackrey in his capacity as editor and divorcing him in his capacity as spouse...
...morning last week, the staff of McCall's-The Magazine of Togetherness-began to come apart. Up to the desk of McCall Corp. President Arthur B. Langlie stalked Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese with a one-sentence resignation. Ten minutes later, Advertising Director Bill Carr (like Wiese, a McCall board member and vice president) was in with his: "I understand that Otis Wiese is no longer with the McCall Corp. . . . This eliminates the last hope I've had for professional management in the company...
...long and the next, the quit parade continued to Langlie's tenth-floor office in the magazine's Park Avenue building-John English, managing editor; Jay Stanwyck, director of research; Estelle Lane Brent, fashion editor; Betty Parsons Ragsdale, fiction editor; Marion Wheeler, production editor; Peggy Bell, features editor. By week's end 16 staffers had resigned, and, one by one, McCall's publicity department doggedly issued terse press releases with the news. Some of the departees were so angry that they left without cleaning out their desks, had their belongings shipped home. Shrugged Langlie...