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...TIME, Sept. 21, you give practically all the credit for the improvement in Physical Culture to Mr. Oursler. I do not think you are either right or fair in that. The marvelous change in the magazine during Mr. Burton's one-year editorship speaks for itself. And as editor of McCall's some years ago, he made just as great an improvement in McCall's. You cannot credit Mr. Oursler with that, can you? Please, TIME, "Honor to whom honor...
Retired. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 56, from the editorship of Harpers Magazine and the board-chairmanship of Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation...
...serving as International News Service correspondent on the Mexican border, working on various papers about the U. S., returning to the Hearst fold in 1917 as editor of Harper's Bazaar. ¶Economist Henry Parker Willis, with the New York Journal of Commerce for 30 years, resigned the editorship which he had held since 1919. Reason: "Clashes of opinion" with the Brothers Joseph, Bernard and Victor Ridder, publishers. Managing Editor Frederick W. Jones also resigned...
When Editor Edward Bok retired in 1919, Mrs. Rinehart was offered the editorship of the Ladles' Home Journal, regretfully turned it down. But she went to Hollywood on a three-year contract. Still the family fortunes rose. They moved to a bigger house in Sewickley. They moved to Washington, D. C. They vacationed in the Cascades, in Mexico, in Egypt. The boys grew up, went to college (Harvard) and married. Now two of them are members of the firm of Farrar & Rinehart, have helped publish several of their mother's books...
...English Liberals, of whom there used to be a great many, used to read the famed weekly Nation & Athenaeum. It reached its height of influence under the editorship of the late Henry William Massingham. After his death it declined steadily, despite the efforts of John Maynard Keynes and Arnold Rowntree who took it in hand. Last week the few remaining Liberal readers lost their paper to the New Statesman, brilliant Laborite weekly, with which it was merged. Title of the combined magazines is the New Statesman & Nation; editor is Kingsley Martin Young, economist, onetime leader writer on the Manchester Guardian...