Word: ingram
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Died. Sir Bruce Ingram, 85, working editor since 1900 of Britain's Illustrated London News; of a heart attack; in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Given a trial as editor of the well-bred journal his grandfather began in 1842, Ingram established himself at the age of 23 with an unparalleled scoop of Queen Victoria's funeral; he stationed 24 artists along the route to Windsor Castle, matched their drawings into 24 double-truck spreads and hit the newsstands within three days. Said Ingram, when photography replaced the sketches, and sepia-tinted rotogravure became the News's trademark: "A pity...
Thomson's new British staffs have learned to respect their boss. When chirpy Sir Bruce Ingram, 84-year-old editor of the Illustrated London News, learned of the change in command, he expressed the timorous hope that Thomson might keep him on: "I have a lot of good ideas-and editing keeps you young." Sir Bruce is likely to stay young. Says Roy Thomson: "We don't replace but just reinforce editors when we take over...
...very real sense, the Special Artist was the product of the Civil War, although he had appeared on the 19th century scene some two decades before the war began. In 1842 Herbert Ingram, an English newspaperman, established the Illustrated London News, the world's first successful pictorial news weekly. Ingram's staff artists sent crude sketches from the field that were then engraved, in a leisurely way, to appear as illustrations alongside the printed accounts of important events. By 1860, the U.S. had three successful examples of graphic journalism: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper...
...Moscow airport one foggy morning last week, a few days before the start of his trial on charges of espionage. Oliver and Ida Powers were visibly tired, looked around at their new surroundings with wary eyes. "They are only poor country folk," the family doctor, Lewis K. Ingram of Norton, Va., confided to newsmen. "All this has been a terrible strain on them...
...started his seventh decade on the job, Ingram and I.L.N. were still in fine fettle. Circulation hovered around 500,000, and the magazine had just plowed $1,500,000 into a new printing plant, moved its twelve staffers into a handsome new building on John Adam Street. Last week, as carpenters were putting the finishing touches on his office, Sir Bruce was without a desk for the first time in 60 years. "Not that it makes any difference," shrugged a staffer. "He never was the kind of editor who could sit at a desk...