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...time he had read Sidney Hook, James Burnham and Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine, the National Review, put out by his wealthy Yale friend, William (God and Man at Yale) Buckley. "The American tradition," Evans proclaimed in the Review, "is unequivocally conservative." Evans still serves the National Review as a contributing editor...
...joined the Marxist Social Democratic Federation, and thought seriously (he later said) of bombing William Ewart Gladstone to death in the House of Commons. Instead, he took up journalism, brazened his way to the editorship of the Evening News. At first, he ran it "as a scholar and man of the world of twenty-eight"-without success; "but as I went downwards and began to edit as I felt at twenty, then at eighteen, I was more successful; but when I got to my tastes at fourteen years of age, I found instantaneous response. Kissing and fighting were the only...
...without even giving us a reason, indicates a rather cavalier attitude," Archibald B. Roosevelt '17, a trustee of the Foundation, declared yesterday. Pertaining to the nomination of Ralph Bunche for the Board of Overseers, the full-page advertisement that was submitted gave "complete documentation of Bunche's record, including editorship of a paper which carried the hammer and sickle on its masthead," Roosevelt said...
...disputed firings, a shield against anticipated cutbacks. But when the workers returned to their jobs, they found new work schedules that penalized strikers in favor of strikebreakers; e.g., Amusement Page Editor Henry Murdock was assigned to work for Reviewer Barbara Wilson, a former subordinate who had been given his editorship. The Teamsters threatened to walk out once more unless the old assignments were reinstated...
...second half of his junior year, Roosevelt won the managing editorship. Here again, he was competent, but not outstanding. Slightly better sports reporting was the only noticeable change under his leadership...