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...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
...bulletin board of the Arizona Times, a staffer had posted a sign: WELCOME SHERIFF. F.D.R.'s strapping daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger read the notice, grimly marched into her office. It was too nearly true to be funny. Before the Phoenix sheriff got any ideas, Publisher Anna was hoping to sell the Times...
...second top staffer to leave recently. In March, Associate Editor Andre Fontaine was fired. Office gossip had it that he was sacrificed because of an article on the U.S. power shortage (Our Lights Are Going Out) that brought complaints from General Electric and power companies. Fontaine had thought that Cottier's should have some of its old crusading spirit. The brass favored the editorial line of least resistance (Collier's safe-&-sane editorials are still the spare-time work, but not always the echo, of the New York Daily News's Reuben Maury...
...work effectively. In the 16 months since '48 had started (as '47), it had bought too much bottom-drawer stuff, because it could not afford the prices other magazines paid for top-drawer pieces. The magazine had improved notably after Editor Richard E. Lauterbach, former LIFE staffer, took over seven months ago-but not enough to withstand the spring newsstand slump. It was running only a little above its advertising guarantee...
Dogged Line. The speeches written for him by smart, genial young Lew Frank Jr., a onetime New Republic staffer, cleaved more & more shamelessly to the Communist line. He delivered them doggedly, chin buried between his shoulders, his mouth turned down at the corners. He attacked the "oil trusts," the U.S. policy of "intimidation"; he charged: "We are guilty of almost every charge we level at the Russians." At Iowa City he demanded a meeting between the next President and Stalin, adding: "Roosevelt always said he could do business with Stalin. That's what he often told me personally...