Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT GOTTLIEB Editor in Chief...
...Painting." Lorimer could be petty, as when he bought a story by a staffer but withheld the news from him for a few days because "he suffers so good." But he also commanded the grand manner. Recalls former Post Editor and Writer W. Thornton ("Pete") Martin: "He used to have a tailor come in and take his measurements right in the office. And he used to take a trip to Europe every year and come back loaded down with Oriental rugs, Chippendale furniture and tapestries. He'd have them all uncrated in the Post hallways for all the editors...
...almost as hallowed a symbol of the American way as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, its neighbors across Philadelphia's Independence Square. With the outbreak of World War II, the country-and the Post-took on a more serious air. Ben Hibbs, a former Kansas newspaperman and editor of Country Gentleman, who took over the Post in 1942, deployed a staff of crack war correspondents. He also changed the fiction-nonfiction ration from 70-30 to 30-70, shortened the articles, and struck a crisp, bright tone throughout. But when postwar American society and American journalism began changing...
...found a new president in Matthew J. Culligan, a dashing former advertising man who had reversed the skidding revenues of NBC's Today show. Culligan hired and fired, wheeled and dealed, and managed to shore up Curtis' finances for a while. He installed Clay Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel suits. The Post's last hope was 36-year-old Corporation Lawyer Martin Ackerman, whose 1962 merger of four...
...improvements. It had oriented itself to more cutting issues, achieved a more youthful flair, and introduced more thoughtful content. But all this came too late. The Post's frenzy of rejuvenation was really a dance of death, and those close to the magazine knew it. The end, said Editor-at-Large Harold Martin, was "like being told that a relative had died after a long incurable illness. There is a certain feeling of relief that there won't be any more suffering...