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Wilber Andrew Cochel was a pioneer in animal husbandry, and by 1918 he was field representative of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association. One day the president of the Kansas City Star offered him the editorship of its weekly. In the 20 years he stayed at the job, Cochel became an important influence in U.S. agriculture. And he grew more & more certain that a vital phase of the country's rural life was being neglected. "We have the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America, the Farm Bureaus and the Grange-all fine organizations-but none of them...
...while, Yates, who had gone to America in 1872 to lecture, was European correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. In 1874 he started The World, a respectable and, within six months, very profitable magazine. In 1884, five years after founding Time, he gave up its editorship. The year before, in The World, he had managed to turn out a spicy paragraph on the Earl of Lonsdale which the court found libelous. He served seven weeks in prison and, although he went on writing after his release, his health broke down. In 1894, he died. Time, which...
...spite of this and his late election to the paper, Roosevelt beat out all his classmates for the managing editorship in January of 1903. After a term as m.e., FDR's promotion to the presidency was virtually automatic...
Freshmen will have their first chance to reap the intellectual professional, and social advantages of editorship on the CRIMSON when competitions for all Crime boards open to the men of 1954 on Wednesday. Juniors and sophomores are also invited...
...York Sun, James Gordon Bennett's Herald and Horace Greeley's Tribune were all bigger than the Aurora, but none could boast a livelier or more literate editorial page. For nearly 100 years, the Aurora's files for the two months of Walt Whitman's editorship were thought lost or destroyed. Then Joseph Jay Rubin came across a file of the defunct daily in the Paterson, N. J. library. In a new book, Rubin (a Penn State professor) and Charles H. Brown have collected 180 articles and two poems by Walt Whitman of the New York...