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...deceptively formidable exterior, and an indestructible appetite for good celery, good tennis, and good English prose. A parson's son (his father is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey), he came to TIME via Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism...
...after it was founded, suggested that it would be nice if everybody could know what was going on around TIME Inc. She was promptly given the job of finding out for everybody. (This week, after one of the longest editorial tenures on TIME Inc., I. Van Meter resigned her editorship of F.Y.I. and prepared to go to China to work with her doctor-husband...
...vest-pocket calculating machine. Then young Schoenberner became the Sitzredakteur (Sitting Editor) of the Munich Auslandspost, an unpopular job which meant chiefly that if the owner fell foul of the law, Schoenberner had the privilege of sitting in prison for him. From there, Schoenberner advanced to the editorship of Jugend (Youth), a noted humorous-literary weekly in Munich...
Editor Schoenberner's task was to keep Jugend youthful-a job he did so well that soon he was offered the editorship of Jugend's chief competitor, Simplicissimus. While Jugend hunted feverishly for a new editor, Schoenberner performed, the hilarious, exhausting feat of editing both weeklies at the same time. After reading and rejecting hundreds of manuscripts in the Jugend offices, he would speed over to Simplicissimus-only to find that the manuscripts he had just rejected had been sent out again to Simplicissimus...
...take a long rest" and probably a permanent one, from the Sunday supplement's editorship, went slight, sharp Martin J. ("Mike") Porter. In, as the fourth editor in its 50 flamboyant years, went portly, white-haired Walter Howey, 63-year-old veteran troubleshooter- the real-life model of the heartless managing editor in Front Page. He had been publisher just four months (TIME, Aug. 13), but was glad to move over-and down a notch- to make room for Young Bill...