Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he retired in 1950, two years after his father's death, his younger brother, Curtis Whittlesey McGraw (Princeton '20), stepped into the job. Still called "Hack" from football days (he captained Princeton's '19 team), burly (6 ft. 2½ in., 210 lbs.) President McGraw, 57, is as gregarious as his brother was reserved, delegates authority to his top aides, Publications Boss Paul Montgomery, Executive Vice President Willard Chevalier, and Editorial Director Smith, lets the magazines run their own shows...
...Hack McGraw subscribes to his father's theory that his "editors must be part of industry before they can be part of the publishing business," would rather hire an engineer and teach him to write than try to make an engineer out of a writer...
...left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band of 40 Mau Maus. The Kenya government has offered ?500 reward for Kimathi's capture...
...could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...
Thus did England, in a careless age, make a farewell to her first great novelist -whom she considered at best a hack writer and at worst a national disgrace...