Word: markel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...
Writes Editor Markel: "I don't outlaw Dick Tracy or Li'I Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information...
...Siler, who captained last year's Crimson varsity, has a distinct edge in his specialty, the discus, as he faces Elis Dick Winterbauer and Bill Stack, neither of whom has come within ten feet of his best toss. In the shot, however, Winterbauer and another Yale freshman, Bill Markel, rate the edge...
...Columbia's Carl William Ackerman, 66, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, which has turned out such noted news and magazine men as Lester Markel of the New York Times, Co-Editor Bruce Gould of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Columnist George Sokolsky. A graduate of the school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter...
Just out of Harvard ('48), where he was managing editor of the daily Crimson, New York-born Anthony Lewis landed a writing job on the Sunday New York Times. Tony Lewis did not do very well. One day more than two years ago, Sunday Editor Lester Markel called him in, suggested that he go out and get some reporting experience. Tony Lewis went home and told his wife, "I've been fired," then started looking for a reporting...