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...first newspaper job Ralph Edward Renaud ever held was in Washington, D. C., his birthplace, where at 18 he was art reporter on the Star. Last week, aged 52, Ralph Renaud returned to Washington as managing editor of the Post. It is his sixth editorship in the last twelve years. In turn he was night managing editor of the New York Herald, assistant managing editor of the Tribune, managing editor of Cyrus Curtis' Evening Post, next of the World, then of the Post again. Few weeks ago a Post shakeup shook Managing Editor Renaud out (TIME, Sept. 18). Promptly...
...have fallen on the pocketbook of Stepson-in-law John Charles Martin who owns 51% of the Post's stock. Two months ago Publisher Martin sent his Man Friday, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., to New York to see what could be done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change in format, began cleaning house. First to go were Editor Julian Starkweather Mason and Managing Editor Ralph Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns to five, will become the second conservative tabloid in the U. S.* There was still a possibility...
...Curtis-Martin newspapers, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer, and the New York Evening Post comprise a weak point in the Curtis frontiers. Nevertheless they strengthened Publisher Curtis's position as head of the first family of Philadelphia. When Son-in-law Edward William Bok resigned the editorship of Mr. Curtis's Ladies' Home Journal the family turned from money-making to social service, music, peace. Cultural Mr. Bok founded and conducted his American Foundation, gave yearly prizes for outstanding service to the city. In Philadelphia Mrs. Bok founded and still heads the Curtis Institute of Music...
Cincinnati is one of those rare cities in which a society editor is the social tsarina -Marion Devereux, a spry, birdlike, fiftyish spinster who inherited from her mother the society editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last...
...first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then and E. S. Martin should reinstate reference to Life...