Word: editoral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your normal teenage pastimes, but Koop managed to avoid being the science nerd with a slide rule in his back pocket. He was on the wrestling, football and baseball teams, editor of the school paper and president of the student council. He went on to Dartmouth and Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant...
...Jenny Standish have just moved into a modern apartment complex south of the Thames in London (faithful Amis readers will recall the courtship of these two as recorded 29 years ago in Take a Girl Like You). Patrick has stopped being a Latin teacher and now works as an editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm followed immediately...
...Ralph Graves, who knew the islands as the teenage stepson of the U.S. High Commissioner during 1939-41, re- creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after Pearl Harbor and the struggle to survive until General Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return. Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly LIFE and a retired editorial director of Time Inc., deploys a diverse cast of characters (American, Filipino and Japanese) whose fates are joined in a narrative that combines the observations of good journalism with the emotional impact of perceptive fiction...
...Editor-in-Chief: Jason McManus...
...News Editor for this Issue: Teresa A. Mullin '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Melissa R. Hart '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Emily Mieras '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Feature Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Photo Editor: Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassy '91 Copy Editor: Chip Cummins...