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...joined Novelists Dorothy Canfield and Christopher Morley, Litterateur Henry Seidel Canby, Informer Clifton Fadiman, as a life replace ment for the late Editor William Allen White...
...outfit itself was the hero, and one of the greatest turned out yet by the Navy. Its skipper, Commander Joseph Clinton Clifton, a 36-year-old precision product of Annapolis and Pensacola, had seen to that. Sinewy "Jumping Joe," who was never known to sit in a chair more than 30 seconds at a time, had put the group straight on his views right from the start. They were a team; there was no room for hot-shots or prima donnas no time for the slightest bit of sloppy flying, bad shooting, lazy tactics...
...Clifton saw his wingman, "Klondike," with whom he had flown close to 500 hours, go down at sea. "He must be saved ! " Joe bellowed over the radio...
...Clifton Copley figures that the time is ripe to set up shop in more small cities and print "chatty, back-fence community newspapers like we knew as children." Only that sort of paper, he is convinced, can compete with radio and national news magazines in the years ahead...
...members replace Clifton Fadiman, Will D. Howe, and Burton E. Livingston. The other two members of the Book Committee are Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author and member of the Book of the Mouth Club's Committee on Selection. The members of the Book Committee volunteer their services in guiding the reading selections of the more than 90,000 members of Phi Beta Kappa for whom the "Key Reporter" is published...