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Word: subeditors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such tropical troubles only accent the purpose of the three men who head the paper: Managing Director Edward P. Glover, 35, a former Sydney Morning Herald subeditor; Sydney Businessman Stanley L. Eskell, 41, who put up most of the $74,000 starting capital; and A. E. Stephens, 40, onetime Morning Herald reporter, and Post editor since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roll-Your-Own Newspaper | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations between Malaya and Singapore after May 30 will go in for subversion. We will put in any editor, subeditor or reporter who goes along this line, and keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Bold Experiment | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

After a miserable childhood, an unsatisfying stint as a subeditor on a British trade paper (Gas World) and a so-so fling as a repertory actor-manager, John Osborne looked back on his 26 misspent years in anger. When he brooded about his estrangement from his mother and his wife (divorced by him for misconduct last week), he got even angrier. The manners and morals of Britain's middle class drove him to total fury. There was little left for him to do but take his violence to the public. So John Osborne sat down and wrote a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Most Angry Fella | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...Sept. 15, 1952). At the request of Herbert Gunn, 50, editor of Lord Rothermere's racy tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 804,541), Hopkinson reviewed Front Page Story, a British movie melodrama with a Fleet Street background. After sending his review to the Sketch, Hopkinson was called by a subeditor and asked if one word might be taken out of the review. "What word?" asked Hopkinson. "You say, 'It's not a great picture,' " answered the subeditor. "Would you mind leaving out the word 'not'?" Hopkinson summarily refused, but agreed to make other minor changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Critic's Rights | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...twelve, Percy was sending poetry regularly to the South Wales News. Two years later he got a job as a copy boy on the paper, soon after became a reporter. Reg, five years younger, started on Cardiff's Western Mail and South Wales News, soon became a subeditor. But Percy thought he had cinched the bet when, at 27, he was made editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He reckoned without Hugh, seven years his junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Act | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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