Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Examiner's shadow, the Chronicle moseyed along as an earnest but unexciting paper so out-of-touch with local currents that it once sent its science editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders and a man convinced that "international news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall...
...congregation made its way out of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral, the editor of the Christian Century remarked to a friend: "You could go to church for a decade-maybe for this century-and not see a service as unique and as important as this...
...packed service they had just attended was all that Editor Harold Fey said it was: two leading churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years, but this was the most direct and concrete proposal yet. The man who made it was a rugged, dimpled Presbyterian liberal-Eugene Carson Blake...
...Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark Jr. and Newscaster Quincy...
Seymour Melman, who is also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with the Soviet system...