Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...
...Another editor once called Grover Hall "a fat radical advised by a cat named Clarabelle." Famous through the South was Clarabelle, Grover's office cat. When she died last fall, Associated Press put her obit on the wire. For the Advertiser Editor Hall wrote an editorial a column and a half long. Said he: "At this moment of sadness the Advertiser beseeches its friends and the followers of Clarabelle NOT to give this office another cat! The Advertiser is fed up on cats and does not wish to be bothered with another...
...edited a newspaper, taught Joe how to set type. At 17 Joe started the Lawrence County Press. That was in 1888, when few of Lawrence County's present citizens had been born. Sometimes the crops were good, and Joe Dale prospered. Sometimes they were not so good, and Editor Dale did not press his hungry subscribers. He had been in business seven years when his plant burned. Joe started over. Then he got married, raised three sons (one is a country editor in northern Mississippi), three daughters. They struck out for themselves, did well enough...
...last fortnight he wrote on his editorial page: "We are making a special appeal to our subscribers ... on account of an unusual emergency. Within the past few weeks, the editor of this paper has found it necessary to consult eminent physicians ... on account of great physical suffering which has sapped our strength...
Last week another Mississippi editor, hot-tempered Major Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, who last spring got into a fist fight with Mississippi's Governor in a Jackson hotel (TIME, May 13), wrote: "Genial, kindly, softspoken, lovable Joe Dale! If the community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly...