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...years, the book review section of the Sunday New York Times (circ. 1,161,174) has had four editors. For one reason or another, all eventually parted company with exacting, hard-riding Lester Markel, longtime (26 years) Sunday editor of the Times (TIME, March 8, 1948). Since August, able Editor Markel has been his own book editor, while he hunted for a man who could fill...
...many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
Room with Bath. City Editor Joseph, who probably does less editing than any city editor in the business, has no need for one of the swank new suites. They are reserved for Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Manager Julius Ochs Adler, Editor Charles Merz, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick and Managing Editor James, in case they are stuck at the paper all night. Joseph takes his leave of his morning-paper staff by 6 p.m. He and his assistants assign the Times's 150 reporters to stories, but the editing is done by copyreaders...
Blab Brothers. Editor Markel then went after the panderers to "national ignorance and apathy"-the "radio rattlers," "newspaper know-it-alls," "sob sisters" and "blab brothers." Said he: "There is a great gullibility . . . about a prevalent radio and newspaper type-the Keyhole Kommentator. Even though his specialties are trivia and truffles, he does not hesitate to deal with tremendous things. . . . The formula is an ingenious one. Our commentator will report (A) that Gladys Gorgeous is going to be divorced next week, and (B) that Yugoslavia will attack us in six months. Comes next week and Gladys . . . gets her divorce...
...Times's Sunday Editor Markel (see above) had several ready reasons why nearly four times as many people read the tabloid Daily News as the Times. The Times scorns gossip, leg art and comics; but the fact is that even on the Times's home ground-the important news-the Daily News often says it better...