Word: edition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also has to approve and edit scripts and help in casting and production planning: "If anyone tells you TV is easy, you can hit them for me. I live on Knox Gelatine and orange juice, just to keep going. In television you must give of yourself at such a pitch that it takes everything...
...sold a piano and started a magazine, The American Poet--with the grandiose idea that he could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...
...have always had two ambitions," says Frederick Lewis Allen, "to edit and to write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found time to write such well-known books as Only Yesterday, The Great Pierpont Morgan, and The Big Change. Last week, at 62, Writer-Editor Allen's second ambition triumphed over his first. He announced his resignation as editor of Harper's Magazine (although he will continue as an adviser...
...never tries to pressure a man or grind an ideological angle. He asks questions until he is sure he has the facts, ending each question with a sharp, peremptory "What, What?" At his desk, close by the Times city desk, Hagerty writes quickly and cleanly, seldom needs to edit his copy...
When radio's Information Please was looking for someone to help ex-New York Timesman John Kieran edit its almanac, it picked a man from the rival Herald Tribune: City Editor Joe Herzberg. Manhattan-born Herzberg, who started on the Trib as an 18-year-old copy boy, never finished college. But he knows his city like the palm of his hand, and in his encyclopedic memory, say staffers, is "everything from baseball to Bach." Joe Herzberg once wrote in his own book, Late City Edition: "A modern newspaper is Thucydides sweating to make a deadline...