Word: marlene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Marlen Edwin Pew, 58, lifelong newshawk who in 1912 helped organize the United Press, onetime (1919-22) manager of Hearst's International News Service from which he resigned "on principle," from 1924 until his retirement last June (TIME, June 15) editor and vice president of Editor & Publisher; after a throat operation; in Manhattan...
...tradepaper to the U. S. Press is James Wright Brown's Editor & Publisher. Last week it contained an announcement which startled its 10,000 readers, mostly admen, newspaper writers, executives, owners. Famed Editor Marlen Edwin Pew was quitting. Reason for his resignation was that Editor Pew, 58, became worried about his health on a recent trip around the world, resolved to get a good rest. Continued was Editor Pew's informal editorial page, "Shop Talk At Thirty." It was announced that Mr. Brown would serve henceforth as both editor and publisher of Editor & Publisher...
...Marlen Edwin Pew was born in Ohio, left school in the seventh grade when his father died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought...
Another standing dislike is pressagentry. Marlen Pew also shares with his great friend Roy Wilson Howard a dislike of the American Newspaper Guild, often crosses journalistic swords with the Guild's redoubtable President Heywood Broun. Another Pew bugaboo is the stage reporter. Scornfully cried Editor Pew on one occasion: "The corrupt, cheapskate movie-type reporter may exist, but I do not know...
Interviewing himself in "Shop Talk At Thirty," Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well...