Word: schuylers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then, last week, in Editor & Publisher, "trade" magazine for newspapermen, one Philip Schuyler related that the Lindbergh-signed stories were not written by Lindbergh. He named their true author-one Carlyle MacDonald, a member of the New York Times European staff. Thus, if Mr. Schuyler wrote correctly, when Mr. James of the New York Times referred to Colonel Lindbergh's dictating his story to the stenographer, it was the story of Mr. MacDonald of the New York Times that the stenographer was really transcribing. Even the compliment to the beauty of Erin may have been a MacDonald heartthrob rather...
...sure, there is nothing new in the "signed" story written by the celebrity whose signature is his only contribution to his article. Mr. Schuyler said that the newspapermen who do the writing that heroes sign are known as "ghosts." But, whatever they may be called, their existence has long been common knowledge. "I wonder who writes his stuff?" gibe even mildly sophisticated U. S. citizens when a heavyweight prizefighter or a matinee idol sets down the story of his life. The "I" story is part of the modern news-exploitation system; accepted as such without particular...
...matter whether Colonel Lindbergh did or did not write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol Lindbergh, if he had a "ghost," was only doing what many famed persons had before and would do again. As Mr. Schuyler pointed out, every light has his shade...
...ELMER SCHUYLER...
...such a thrilling subject: women in politics. Nor such a vivid story: yesterday, Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, said that women should drop feminism and sex-consciousness in politics and "get down to work"; today, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rogers of the National Woman's Party retorted that she and her friends would stay "proudly feministic...