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...isolated camp in northern Queensland, Australia, Geologist J. G. Hathaway probably qualifies as TIME'S most thorough reader. He writes : "I read every flamin' word: news, ads, picture credits, even the masthead (I see Marshall Smith got a promotion). I even count the type faces used...
Monro became president of the new daily, called the Journal, which included on its masthead such present greats in the editorial world as E. J. Kahn '37 of the New Yorker and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 managing editor of Life. Despite a brave start, the paper was forced out of business after a few weeks by debts and the difficulties of competition with an established monopoly...
When the January issue appeared last week with new layouts and writers, the face-lifting operation looked like a success. The masthead flew two MacArthurs instead of one; mustached brother John D. MacArthur, president of Chicago's Bankers Life & Casualty Co., was the new publisher. Ince had sold out and gone off to Europe. "We didn't want anything with the MacArthur name on it to fail," explained John D. loyally. "My group-just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money-has put up $500,000 to make...
...find for the party-a taciturn, even secretive man, an awkward, fiery writer, a self-taught linguist who read and spoke German, French, Spanish and Italian. He wrote for the Daily Worker, became its foreign news editor, finally (while Cartoonist Robert Minor was listed at the top of the masthead) became its editor in fact. On the side he did translations. Two of his translations (from the German) were Franz Werfel's Class Reunion and Felix Salten's Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin's heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges...
Anonymity Is Out. The two chief reasons for the Journal's huge success are both named Gould. They appear on the masthead in 12-point type as "Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, Editors." They are far better known to the public than most of the editing confraternity, because of such journalistic didos as cozy "interviews" with notables like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Stassen, which were actually written by Gretta Palmer and J. C. Furnas, respectively...