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...above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life...
Last week the first issue of Life under Norman Anthony's editorship appeared. As far as it resembled the Life of 1928, this new year might as well be Anno Domini...
Rumored early last week was the startling suggestion that the Earl of Birkenhead, recently resigned as Secretary of State for India, would take over the editorship of Britannia, to which he has regularly contributed. Denial of this persistent report by Inveresk Ltd. was coupled with the announcement that "publication of Britannia will be continued under the direction of the present editor, Crawfurd Price...
Britannia's anonymous "honest man" wrote in his "Diary": "I have just been told that in arranging with Mr. Garvin to undertake the editorship of the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the American proprietors stipulated that all articles on Eastern political questions should be written by Americans. . Such an instruction as the proprietors of the Encyclopedia are reported to have issued can only be directed to securing support for some policy or other, unless, of course, truth has become an American monopoly, like gold...
From the time that they first began to wiggle pencils, Cousins McCormick & Patterson knew that the Tribune was waiting for them. They took over the reins of editorship in 1914, and after the War their whip cracked loudly, domineeringly. The morning field in Chicago had been cut down to two newspapers: the Tribune and the Hearst-owned Herald and Examiner.* In a circulation war which culminated in the distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy...