Word: edition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Paston" (Emily Symonds, author of At John Murray's) began to edit these unpublished letters before her death. The editing was completed by Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: The Years of Fame: The Private Letters of Princess Lieuen). Missing from the collection are any letters from Byron's half sister and mistress, Augusta Leigh, Lady Melbourne (see above) or Annabella Milbanke (Lady Byron). It adds little that the nosey world does not already know about the Byron legend, but it touches up some less known amusing episodes. Sample...
...which the Museum raised an endowment of more than $600,000 in 1934, and Mrs. Rockefeller's collection in 1935. The Museum acquired an energetic executive director, Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr., an able assistant curator of painting & sculpture, Dorothy Miller, a learned manager of publications, Frances Collins, to edit its unexpectedly successful books. In 1935 the Film Library was created under bright-eyed Iris Barry and her husband, John Abbott, received a Rockefeller Foundation grant...
...Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens could not edit a magazine in an office. To get away, Steffens traveled through the Middle West, wrote his sensational The Shame of the Cities...
...have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman show in herself, requiring the full-time services of three able assistants to stage everything she feels she must...
...Rouge, La. That eminent patron of the arts, the late Huey Long, inadvertently started a writing colony there when he imported a group of young Southern writers to give his Louisiana State University intellectual prestige to match its new buildings. Leader is Robert Penn Warren, who found time to edit a critical quarterly, The Southern Review, while writing his first novel, Night Rider (TIME, March...