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Asked what makes a good editor, Editor Bruce Ingram of the Illustrated London News once replied: "The chef does not go out with his gun to shoot the pheasant. He does not gather the strawberries and pick the peas. But he knows where the best are to be found and he can combine [them] into a perfect meal. That is the function of the editor...
Last week, as he celebrated his 50th anniversary as editor of the world's oldest picture magazine, plump, jolly Chef Ingram was performing the neat feat of turning out a tasty and tasteful journalistic meal without spice. "Whatever success we've had," says 73-year-old Captain (World War I) Ingram, "has been due to a policy of romance without sensation...
...Artist's Eye. Nevertheless, the romance of a picture magazine became a 26,000-copy sensation on the day Founder Herbert Ingram, grandfather of the present editor, brought out the first issue in May 1842. It carried spot-news sketches of Queen Victoria's fancy-dress ball at Buckingham Palace, and of an "immense conflagration" at Hamburg. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, the Hamburg sketch appeared on Page One only a few days after news of the fire reached London...
Died. Cecile White Stainback, 55, wife of Hawaii's Governor (since 1942) Ingram Macklin Stainback; after a brain operation; in St. Louis...
...Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening to some side-of-the-mouth oratory from Party-Liner Bridges, the striking stevedores voted unanimously to refuse to work for the territorial government. Unless...