Word: edition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took one year to plan, three years to write, and two more to edit this ambitious literary history of the U.S. The first two volumes consist of essays by 55 scholars; the third is a valuable bibliography. Here, presumably, is everything most readers could possibly want to know about American writing...
...adless magazine is still run by its first editor. When Curtis asked friendly, tousled Mrs. Ada Campbell Rose, 47, to survey the children's field, she was a textbook editor and housewife with two sons. Impressed by her report, Curtis asked her to edit a magazine for moppets...
...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...
...Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry, who looked like an Old Testament...
...from Virginia. Lanky, red-haired Bob Garst is all newspaperman; marriage, remarked a friend last week, is about his only hobby (his wife used to edit the Times's letters column). A Virginian, Garst first worked for the Times as a morgue clerk while studying at Columbia's School of Journalism ('24). He has been on the Times news staff for 23 years, for the past two years as assistant night managing editor. In his spare time, Garst wrote (with Timesman Ted Bernstein) a widely used manual on copyreading, Headlines and Deadlines, and taught journalism at Columbia...