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...erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...
...Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...
Born at Williamstown, Mass., 69 years ago, the son of a professor, he graduated from Williams College in 1881, taught there from 1886 to 1893. For the next seven years he taught at Princeton, assuming the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly during his last year. To do this he had to split his week between Boston and Princeton...
Perry graduated from Williams College in 1881, taught there and in Princeton University, and later assumed the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly in 1889. In 1907 he became a professor of English at Harvard and in 1926 was appointed first incumbent of the Higginson chair. He is the author of many books of criticism and editor of a number of volumes of prose and poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and other learned societies. During 1909-10 he was Harvard Lecturer at the University...
Editor Weitzenkorn was full of hope when he took the editorship of the Graphic last August. Said he then: "The Graphic unquestionably got off to a bad start. Its tone has been a low voice. Its policy was a 'chemise' policy. So far as Mr. Macfadden is concerned he agrees with me that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want...