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...been there only a year when Ebony Publisher John Johnson offered him the editorship of Negro Digest. The publication had been founded in 1942 as a carbon copy of the Reader's Digest, just as Ebony imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...
Just such a backlash surely cost the Register some subscribers as it moved cautiously left of center under the editorship of Father Daniel Flaherty. But the emphasis on local diocesan life resulting from Vatican II was a more critical factor: several large dioceses decided to publish their own papers, leaving an enlarged Register printing plant underutilized. Now, as part of the sale agreement, Twin Circle-the original weekly backed by Frawley-will also be printed at the Denver plant, which stays in the hands of the former Register owners...
...brides have received such a glittering dowry. For the Kenyon, under the editorship of Critic-Poet John Crowe Ransom for 20 years, became an inspired and inspiring instrument of criticism, offering the work of R.P. Blackmur, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and William Empson...
...political despair, beset by sickness and debt. He had qualms about contributing to the National Review at all. Missing deadline after deadline, his mind and pen ever poised to examine any key issue at Hegelian lengths, Chambers must have been difficult to fit into the everyday demands of editorship. Clearly the man and his words were worth all the trouble. It is hard not to agree with Buckley's valediction composed after Chambers' death in 1961. He speaks "to our time from the center of sorrow...
...many, both in Russia and the West, the government crackdown on Novy Mir and Tvardovsky's resignation marked the end of an era. Since its founding in 1928, the magazine has published most of Russia's greatest contemporary writers. During the twelve years of Tvardovsky's editorship in the post-Stalin period, Novy Mir earned the reputation of being one of the best literary magazines published in any language anywhere. In addition to fiction and poetry, Tvardovsky managed to publish articles discussing, in a veiled way, Soviet antiSemitism, the wretchedness of village life, and other subjects hardly...