Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...
...from the May 23 Lindbergh story written by Edwin L. James, appearing in the New York Times...
Millions of U. S. citizens have thrilled to the stories of the Lindbergh flight, written by the hero himself. Copyrighted by the New York Times Co., in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, South America, Europe and the British Empire, they were widely syndicated. Countless breakfast eggs grew cold while readers feasted upon "Lindbergh's own story," devoured the flight-tale as told in the first person by the flyer himself...
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...
...outstanding event and bring thou- sands upon thousands of words upon it before the eyes of virtually every literate U. S. inhabitant. Who has not seen the Lindbergh photographs? Who, asked to whom the nicknames "Slim," "Lucky," apply, would hesitate for an answer? To be sure, the stories written about Colonel Lindbergh were often phrased in bombastic and maudlin journalese. Mrs. Lindbergh, dignified, poised, was the theme of countless prose variations of Mother Machree. Had Colonel Lindbergh possessed a wife or sweetheart, one hesitates to think what would have been written about her. What Colonel Lindbergh did and said...