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...However, an impartial observer has stated. "I have concluded that as far as the public relations department is concerned, it did not cencor faculty members by blue pencil, veiled threats, or any other means...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...
Yesterday afternoon about 2 p.m., an unidentified student left the tan initialed case with Morison's secretary. "All's well that ends well," Morison stated last night, hanging up his pencil and chewing the phone...
...works show three techniques: charcoal and stump, pen and ink, and pencil and crayon. The set illustrates his development from 1924 until...
...scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted on the use of a few stock phrases ("As it must to all men, Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences...