Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back to his editorial desk went Samuel Sidney McClure. He had not sat there since 1912, when he turned over the magazine that bears his name to Publisher Frederick L. Collins. The 13 years that had passed had been years of trouble for McClure's, aching years of middle age, of famine amidst plenty, of dieting and forced feeding at the hands of three rejuvenators in turn. Now the master was back, the earnest, wrinkled man with solicitude in his heart and a healing touch in his fingertips. The issue that the master planned and that appeared last week...
...planned, Editor McClure recalled his golden days. He remembered how, at the beginning of the Century, he had gone abroad, obtained introductions to two young English men of letters, come home and published, before other U. S. magazines, the works of Rudyard Kipling and James M. Barrie. He remembered the spectacular series of articles he had asked Miss Ida M. Tarbell to write, on all the unpleasant things there were to be known about John D. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust. That series, in 1903, had put McClure's at the head of the monthly field...
...Miss Tarbell," mused Editor McClure. "Ah, yes. Why not herald this new era with another clarion note from Miss Tarbell? People will remember...
...DOMINANT BLOOD-Robert E. McClure - Doubleday, Page ($2.00). There are really two novels within this high-titled volume. Both are so excellently wrought that a third novel, a sequel, would seem inevitable. The first novel relates concurrently the life of father and son. It concludes with son's inheritance which consists of: a) The memory of a father who died in unmitigated disgrace; b) $6,000,000 worth of breweries, steel railways, iron-foundries piled together by Grandfather Moldenhauer, a classic German-American of Columbus, Ohio. The second novel relates the story of the Great...
...chose as biographer Ray Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass. Mr. Maker, a man of 54, is the author of a number of books on public questions and (under the pen name of David Grayson) of a number of essays. After leaving the University of Michigan, he was connected with McClure's Syndicate and McClure's Magazine, served as an editor of the American Magazine. During the War he was attached to the State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional...