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...gaunt, cadaverous, Irish Catholic editorialist, hunched over a typewriter in the office of the Boston Traveler, pounded out these words with satisfaction one morning last fortnight, handed them to a copy boy, sent them on their way to the composing room. Then acid-tongued Joe Toye, 50 years old, with 34 years of news experience behind him, went out to lunch in high good humor...
Editor Douglas Southall Freeman last week celebrated his 3Oth anniversary as editorialist of the Richmond News Leader. In Richmond, as in many a Southern city, newspaper editorials are read and solemnly debated. Many a dinner table rings with arguments over what Virginius Dabney said this morning in the Times-Dispatch, what Douglas Freeman wrote in this afternoon's News Leader. Today few papers in the U. S. have such an editor as Freeman...
...order to clip NLRB's powers (TIME, July 25). The position taken by A. F. of L. this week indicates that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
Upon the death of Dean Diederichs of the Cornell University College of Engineering, onetime graduate Athletic Manager Romeyn Berry (now editorialist of The New Yorker) wrote the following: I have worked with Herman Diederichs 20 years. Half the time I would have died for him and the other half I wanted to kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still...
Probably the most eminent present members of the Sunpapers' staff are its four biographers. Oldest of these in point of service is Political Pundit Kent, who has a roving assignment to write as he pleases for the Sun. Editorialist Mencken, who writes a weekly article for the Evening Sun, has been continuously employed on the two papers for over 30 years, is now a director of the Sun company. Present management of the Sunpapers, headed by President Paul Patterson, has sought to make the Sun and the Evening Sun separate journalistic entities, although national advertising may be inserted...