Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...York's International Airport, when Lumumba and self-styled Congo Developer Louis Detwiler arrived early one morning, they were met by a probing team made up of Contributing Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, New York Correspondent Serrell Hillman and Researcher Gayle Williams...
...morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness...
...came to the serious job of news gathering, Allen was all business. He was usually the first to arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike. Editor Allen took pity on the sole surviving staffer and chauffeured him home. "Now, don't come in till 6:30," he said indulgently-then drove briskly back to work...
...Poland has won the cultural freedom for which October, 1956 Revolution was fought," Julius Kydrynski said at the International Seminar Forum last night. Although the capacity audience did not seem to share his feeling, the editor of Prezekroj indicated that Polish writers do not suffer from governmental suppression. What appears to be suppression, he stated, comes from Poles believing the attacked works are too controversial or unrepresentative of Polish sentiment...
...Author-Editor Hough (Country Editor, Thoreau of Walden} has published the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic...