Word: journalism
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...from a Nickel. In the beginning (and until 1901), Town & Country was the homely Home Journal, originally a newspaper-size nickel weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the provincial U.S. of 1846, their aim was high: "... to give the cream of new books, to keep a watchful lookout for genius in literature, music...
...Their journal strayed far from the path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
...Ludwig Bemelmans. Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller and Oliver St. John Gogarty, is now alone in the once-crowded field that held Vanity Fair, Spur, Horse & Horsemen, Country Life and the Sportsman. It has survived by getting under Hearst's wing, and by getting back on the old Home Journal beam. "We found out," says Harry Bull, "that sportsmen can't read...
When Herbert Sebastian Agar, Pulitzer-Prize winning author (The People's Choice), got his discharge from the Navy, he had a good job awaiting him. After four years' leave, he could return to edit Publisher Barry Bingham's prosperous Louisville Courier-Journal. But this week Agar turned up with a smaller platform to speak from and he was happy about it, too. In January, he will become the British Isles editor of Freedom & Union, Clarence Streit's small, earnest voice of federal world-government (TIME, Sept...
Back to Britain. Long before the war (1929-34), Agar had been in London as freelancer, literary editor of the English Review and correspondent for the Courier-Journal. When the Courier's owner Robert Bingham was sent to England as Ambassador by F.D.R., he and son Barry enthusiastically plotted Agar's future, made him a C-J columnist in 1935, editor in 1940. In 1942 he resigned to join the Navy (he had been an enlisted man in World...