Word: mckelway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written in collaboration with Ann Honeycutt McKelway, ex-wife of the New Yorker's Editor St. Clair McKelway, the book takes a crack at almost every other amateur theory and legend about dogs, their likes & dislikes, habits and diseases. Because the authors have a sense of humor, the book manages to get across painlessly a good many answers to such questions as how to get a dog and how to feed, train and take care of him once you do. Some sound advice for city dog-owners: never buy a grown dog; never put a puppy on the street...
...illustrations, Mrs. McKelway got one of her ex-husband's colleagues, James Thurber, who himself looks some-what like a collie, with a strain of English sheep dog. His familiar, frustrated drawings aim less at anatomical correctness than at psychological accuracy...
With Mr. White gone, and until Mr. Thurber's return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal...
...Washington Star, richest paper in town, sedate property of Frank Brett Noyes & family, announced last week that Assistant Managing Editor Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 41, would succeed the late, longtime Managing Editor Oliver Owen Kuhn...
Over the door of the old building were two bronze eagles to symbolize the paper's name, its wide flight for news. Under the Eagle's eagles passed many a capable newsman, such famed Brooklyn editors as Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe, who wrote sober, sensible Eagle editorials for 38 years...