Word: evanses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Unequivocally Conservative." By no stretch of the imagination can M. Stanton Evans, the News's new editor, be called a cockeyed left-winger. But he may well be the youngest metropolitan-daily editor in the U.S. He is 26, an age at which many journalists are still writing obits...
By the time he had read Sidney Hook, James Burnham and Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine...
Inevitably Eugene Pulliam got wind of Evans, and in 1959 invited him out to Indianapolis to be chief editorial writer for the News. It was only a short way further to the top.
Closer to Wisdom. As an editor younger than most of his staff-among them Gene Pulliam's son Eugene S., who is 46 and managing editor-Evans plans not to interfere with the news operations. The only change he has ordered so far is to dress up the editorial...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. A new edition of a classic account of sharecropper life in the mid-'30s, written with luminous love, raging anger, Christian anguish, and cascading torrents of poetry.