Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brand-new editorial management marched in this week to take charge of the Saturday Evening Post. Only a fortnight after the Post uncorked its unprecedented price boost from 5? to 10? (TIME, March 9), Editor Wesley Winans Stout abruptly quit his job, after a "disagreement on policy." With him went...
...editor is mild Ben Hibbs, 40, editor of Country Gentleman, and, like Editor Stout, a onetime Kansas newspaperman. An equally significant newcomer is a smart, versatile young man (29), Robert Fuoss (pronounced Foos), who fills the newly created post of managing editor. Young Fuoss, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has for two years headed Post promotion and publicity. He is an advertising man, a protégé of Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway...
...bitterness manfully. Dr. Chiang, closing the conference on Chungking hill, looked back on China's years of war: "Night fell early upon China's independence," he said. "But we held on, hoping against hope. Then at midnight, at the darkest hour, we suddenly found at our side stout and loyal companions in arms...
Secretary Perkins, stout defender of the 40-hour week, cautiously suggested that a 48-hour week might be necessary. But much more far-reaching was a plan sent to the White House by silver-thatched Paul McNutt...
Surprisingly, stout man Moore outdoes himself in an unfamiliar medium, stealing the proceedings from ebullient Bob Hope. And Vera Zorina, dazzling in technicolor, proves that she has a lot more than twinkling toes to recommend...