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...grapple with U.S. lingo. His mountainous task was to find out what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice, and volunteers supplied thousands of samples of early U.S. usages...
When the first of the DAE's sections came off the press in 1936, Sir William went home to Oxfordshire with his strong-minded wife. For seven years he and Co-Editor Hulbert collaborated and quibbled from a distance. Throughout the long printing process, two sets of every proof went to Sir William. He corrected and returned both. Sometimes he did his final editing on proofs, a practice which unnerves typesetters. The mangling got so bad that the Press almost lost its staff, had to serve an ultimatum on the editors...
...capital in 1925. The "Limey prof," a shy, spike-bearded little Scotsman, was charmed. That was the kind of talk he had come to the U.S. to codify; No one could question his fitness for the job. One of the world's great linguists, he was co-editor of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, for which monumental task he was knighted...
This is Manfred Gottfried, who was TIME'S first editorial employe back in 1923. Six years National Affairs Editor, six years Managing Editor of TIME, three years Associate Editor of FORTUNE, Gottfried, now 43, is Co-Editor. So much of the news of the past two decades has passed across his desk that most writers expect him to know everything...
...pair of Freshmen was added as well, to augment the four chosen by class election last month. They are Donald T. Trautman '46 of Kirkland House and Cleveland, business manager and later co-editor of the Freshman Red Book, and Robert M. Hart '46 of Adams House and Tulsa, Oklahoma, member of the Freshman Class Committee and one of the organizers of the two '46 dances, last summer's and this winter...