Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The activities of the Society are en- dorsed by such men as Edward W. Forbes '95, James B. Munn '12, and Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Information Bureau.
No one, least of all his cryptic, cigar-chewing day-side news editor, Sid Forbes, had ever heard of a female copyreader. Forbes did not even like to think of one. The rest of the Journal staff, strong men all, paled. But, game to the core, Ayers hired six female...
For about ten days Managing Editor Ayers (see cut, in center background) lectured his charges on the mysteries of copyreading. At the end of the lecture course two dropped out. The M.E. handed the four survivors over to Editor Forbes for slow polishing on the day-desk.
Came a hectic two weeks, but Forbes got through it, turned his semi-finished product over to Night Editor George Bradley, went back to cigar chewing. After two weeks Bradley, a crack copy editor, exploded. "These girls," he roared to Ayers, "don't know what I'm talking...
Biographer Forbes catches some of the vitality of that line in her account of the ride and of the ground swell of war that began the next day. Her Battle of Lexington, even more than her description of the Boston Massacre, is a superb piece of historical writing.