Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Frank Sinatra is no favorite of mine, I cannot help but feel your Show Biz editor is a bit of a bastard himself for his keyhole comments in your Aug. 25 issue...
...wood-paneled London office near Covent Garden's clamorous produce market, A. B. (for Arthur Bernard) Clements, 60, editor of the Sporting Life, sat down one morning last week to flip through his mail. As usual, it contained requests for him to arbitrate disputes between British horse-race bettors and their bookies. As usual, Clements prepared a judicious answer to each query...
Bets, under British law, are not contracts, and disputes over them cannot be taken to court. Instead, Britain's racing fans toss their problems to Editor Clements and the daily Sporting Life. They get straight, prompt answers, which in track circles have all the authority that courts give to true legal questions; Editor Clements guesses that to date more than $1,500,000 "and innumerable pints of beer" have ridden on his decisions...
Sporting Life has long tolerated a screwball tradition. Best-known character in its raffish staff of olden days was its longtime (1925-37) editor, a retired army captain named Chris Towler. From writing for a dog magazine, Towler learned a deft touch with copy, prodded staffers into developing a brisk, racy style. But he gambled heavily and badly, often forced his reporters to open accounts at banks where he was overdrawn in order to get a supply of blank checks...
Bookie v. Tote Board. When Towler died, Odhams turned the paper over to A. B. Clements, who became a reporter at 14, worked his way up on the Sporting Life rewrite desk. Brisk, red-faced Editor Clements (called "A.B.C." by his reporters) runs a 55-man staff, every one willing at all times to bet on almost any issue, including how long it will take a fly walking up a wall to get to the ceiling...