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...metamorphosis was watched with interest by a onetime assistant editor of College Humor, George Teeple Eggleston, now editor of Life. To him it seemed a strategic moment. He went to his boss, Publisher Clair Maxwell, persuaded him that Life ought, for the first time in 50 years, to publish something besides Life. The result appeared this week-the first issue of University. Like College Humor twelve years ago, University was tentatively begun as a quarterly. Price...
...anniversary number. Editor George Teeple Eggleston resisted the temptation to fill the book with reprints of 50-year-old drawings and text. The cover is a dainty color-photograph of a group modelled in soap by Lester Gaba-a girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together...
...efforts to escape hackneyed and stilted media. Editor Eggleston has introduced two other forms of illustration in Life: caricatures modelled in tin, marionette groups in clay...
Just when youthful Editor George Teeple Eggleston was toying with the idea of using colored photographs on Life's cover, into his office walked Abner Joseph Epstein (Dartmouth 1931), nephew of famed Sculptor Jacob Epstein. He had made some paper masks of U. S. politicians, wondered if Life could use them. With him Editor Eggleston concocted the "Little Jack Homer" subject for the first of a series...
...Clark Jr. tried to keep the feud alive by taking away the Miner staff and starting a new Butte daily, but there was not enough hatred left. After a few months he abandoned the project. The battle was over. Of the original Standard editors only famed Charles H. ("Egg") Eggleston survived, and he was finally forced into comparative retirement by failing eyesight. A few printers and pressmen continued to turn out the ghostlike Standard-until last week...