Word: editing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...
...ministry and his wife. "I questioned my own certitude about Christianity," he explained. When he came out of retreat, he had confirmed his decision to leave the ministry and went into television. Among Templeton's fans was Star Editor-in-Chief Beland Honderich, who hired him to edit the Star's news-background page...
...spite of such seeming offhandedness, the Congressional Record is in a sense a publishing wonder. It is a daily of more than 200 pages, with an average circulation of 42,000, no managing editor, and in the members of Congress, 537 contributors, all free to edit their own copy Printed overnight at a cost of about $16,000 per issue, it is delivered all over Washington earlier than the morning milk. Though the Record has never missed its midnight deadline, only a system as intricately interrelated as a Swiss watch keeps it functioning...
...reporters and typists work so fast that a Representative or a Senator can have a copy of his remarks within half an hour after he has stopped talking. Each member of both congressional branches has the opportunity to edit what he has said before it goes to the printers. This practice was scored by the late Senator Richard Neuberger (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), who introduced a resolution to prevent substantive changes in the recording of remarks made on the Senate floor. Senators, he said, are among the "few persons who can say 'I wish I'd said that...
...Gladstone to death in the House of Commons. Instead, he took up journalism, brazened his way to the editorship of the Evening News. At first, he ran it "as a scholar and man of the world of twenty-eight"-without success; "but as I went downwards and began to edit as I felt at twenty, then at eighteen, I was more successful; but when I got to my tastes at fourteen years of age, I found instantaneous response. Kissing and fighting were the only things I cared for at thirteen or fourteen, and these are the things the English public...