Word: edits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank E. Sweetser, who has been elected to edit the new paper announces that the publication will be approximately the same size as the Daily Record, but will resemble that paper in no other manner. It will be four pages in length, and will probably be sold at ten cents a copy, although no definite decisions have been made concerning the price. Since the year is rapidly drawing to a close, only one issue has been planned for the remainder of the year. However, if the success of the paper warrants it, another issue will be undertaken which will appear...
...doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with two sons, Josephson lives at Gaylordsville, Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from...
...English. First two years he lived at famed Miss Mooney's at No. 5 Linden St., hard by Hasty Pudding which he was not asked to join. No grind, he worked hard but quickly, spent most of his hours in the laboratory. But he found time to help edit the Crimson, dance with the "Baby Brats" at famed Brattle Hall. He did not seek popularity and few of his classmates, including Junius Spencer Morgan, Sumner Welles, Nicholas Roosevelt, Gilbert Seldes, noticed the shy, towheaded, unprepossessing youngster from Dorchester. Those who did became his fast friends, won by a quick...
...returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
Since the December number of the "American Mercury" is the last issue of the magazine which H. L. Mencken will edit, the most pertinent and interesting feature in this copy, naturally, is his farewell editorial. In it he briefly but gracefully reviews his ten year term as editor, which, on the whole, he seems to have found pleasant enough. His reasons for retiring, he explains, are twofold; first because "ten years is long enough for one editor to serve," and second, because he wants more time to devote to other undertakings, particularly to the composition of more serious books...