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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wiese went to New York in 1926 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin, a letter of introduction to book critic Harry Hansen and an itch to edit. Hansen introduced him to McCall's Editor Harry Payne Burton, who hired him. A few months later, when the temperamental Burton left, William B. Warner, president of McCall's board, asked young Wiese to tell him in writing what ought to be done to improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after...
This week the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune had its second birthday. A little over two years ago, when Geoffrey Parsons Jr. arrived in Paris to edit it, the paper had ceased to exist. The fabled Old Paris Herald, eccentric foster child of the New York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like...
...young Englishman named Allen Lane decided that the people who shopped at Woolworth's would just as soon buy good literature as bad. Penguin Books, London, which he founded, was enormously successful, at first with reprints, then with new books. Recently Lane hired Scholar Rieu to edit a series of classics in new translations. This is his first, and it is good...
When Herbert Sebastian Agar, Pulitzer-Prize winning author (The People's Choice), got his discharge from the Navy, he had a good job awaiting him. After four years' leave, he could return to edit Publisher Barry Bingham's prosperous Louisville Courier-Journal. But this week Agar turned up with a smaller platform to speak from and he was happy about it, too. In January, he will become the British Isles editor of Freedom & Union, Clarence Streit's small, earnest voice of federal world-government (TIME, Sept...
...Editor Ralph Ingersoll, who went out last week when Marshall Field decided that ads would go in, rolled out to St. Louis on a lecture tour. He had, he said, three projects in mind: to be a radio commentator, to edit a national magazine, to complete four books for which he had already written the outlines. All three could wait, said he, while he retired to his farm at Lakeville (Conn.) to "do a little quiet living for a while...