Word: subeditors
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...again. Over a dispatch from Korea, the Standard headlined: PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A. Canada-born Lord Beaverbrook, who considers himself a staunch friend of the U.S., was furious, especially when the headline was quoted in the U.S. press as an instance of British ill will. The subeditor who wrote the headline was fired and the Beaver scorched Gunn for good measure. Gunn stood firm, argued that the headline was "no more than a quotation" (but not an exact one) from the story under it by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech. But the Beaver had had enough...
...with his wife, mother and brother. It is alleged that the murdered editor instigated the murder of four labor leaders. Kwaseng heavily attacked the Communists. This murder is typical of the transfer of the trouble in China between the Communists and the Kuomintang to foreign Chinese. The editor and subeditor of Basarab were arrested for action endangering law and order in the country...
Louis Post-Dispatch, a subeditor for the Manhattan publishing house of Doubleday, Doran, and for five years (after a stint of movie writing in Hollywood) a story scout for 20th Century-Fox films...
From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...
...unfortunate phrasing here. Mr. Bouton, writing hurriedly, used two words, 'ruthlessness' and 'brutality' in attempting to rehearse the strong virtues which historians attribute to Loyola. These words were badly chosen and are not in accord with the prevailing historical opinion. His error should have been deleted by the subeditor who prepared the article for publication, but again there was a lapse and the words got into the paper. The inadvertence was and is regretted...