Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. In this controversial quasi-autobiography, the literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his scramble from the obscurity of a Brooklyn slum to a position of influence in the New York literary world...
...also directs his country's foreign policy. This week, in an interview in LIFE, he proved that he can be just as tough and unbending as any of his predecessors. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects in a more or less monologic talk with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and LIFE Managing Editor George P. Hunt in his Kremlin office, he showed not only an uncompromising attitude in current disputes with the U.S. but also a new self-confidence on the Kremlin's part that things are going its way. Excerpts...
Died. Henrietta Malkiel Poynter, 66, co-founder and editor of the Congressional Quarterly; of a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Convinced that the daily press missed much of what went on in Congress, Henrietta and her publisher husband Nelson (St. Petersburg Times) in 1945 started printing their Quarterly-now a weekly-which keeps tab on everything from the attendance of Senators to the doings of lobbyists. Circulation barely brushes 4,000, but includes a wide variety of organizations which pay subscription rates running higher than...
This newly updated compilation of titles and statistics by Alice Payne Hackett, an editor of the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber...
Twenty-five resistors turned their cards in to the speakers, who included Harvard clergyman Richard E. Mumma, and Liberation magazine editor David Dellinger...