Word: edits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief associate of Mr. Havell in forming the syndicate which paid approximately $200,000 for the Shaw's Review of Reviews Corp. is David P. Page, co-managing editor of The Digest. He will edit the new weekly. Mr. Havell thinks The Digest flopped because it reflected too much editorial bias. His remedy will be reversion to the classic neutrality of juxtaposed newspaper comment which characterized the Literary Digest of the late '20s when it had 1,400,000 circulation. Beginning Nov. 13 the Literary Digest's, cover will appear bedecked in action color photographs. Its interior...
Died. William Andrew Me Andrew, 73, famed educator, onetime (1924-28) Chicago Superintendent of Schools; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. The focus of William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's clownish anti-British Mayoralty campaign of 1926, Michigan-born Educator McAndrew retired from teaching to edit the "Educational Review" in School & Society...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
...that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position in no sense guarantees his continuance in petitioner's employ...
...Hill deserted newspaper work to edit Fox news-reels, but the Sun wooed him back in 1927. In 1932 radio was looking for newspapermen who had firm, friendly voices in addition to rich experience in reporting, in travel, and in simplifying world events. They found Edwin C. Hill, whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon...