Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which had never happened before, and in all probability will never happen again." A former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a freelance journalist, Sherrod returned to Tarawa with Shoup, who, as a colonel, had commanded the invasion...
Died. Daniel Longwell, 69, one of the first editors of LIFE; of a heart attack; at his home in Neosho, Mo. After coming to Time Inc. in 1934 from the trade-book departments at Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Longwell served as a special assistant to Henry R. Luce, later started the experimental department that led to the publication of LIFE in 1936. Until then, most U.S. magazines used pictures mainly as text illustration; Longwell printed pictures to tell the story-strong, bold, often alone on the page. "We learned," he said, "to give the picture a chance." He began...
News assistant news editor Aanu Mungo defended the pictures as "tender," and said that the News does not expect much administrative action. Mungo claimed that most student reaction has been favorable, and added that the next issue would offer comment on the University's statement...
...youngsters. And they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers. The Tribune is getting some help, editorial as well as financial, from an advisory committee that includes Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, New York Times Associate Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal and Harper's Editor Willie Morris. Basically, however, the editors are counting on the fact that blacks and whites are concerned enough about one another to share a common newspaper...
...famous dedication of The Waste Land is "For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro," which even nonscholars of Italian can figure out to mean "the better craftsman." In this context, "craftsman" means "editor." It is well known that Eliot's great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically inaccurate flamboyance, "the longest poem in the English langwidge" (434 lines in the final version). A facsimile edition of Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published...