Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reading TIME book reviewing ever since, whenever possible. During the war in the countries where I was, it happened very belatedly and only occasionally, hence more impressively. And especially of late, beyond the peculiarities, the imagery, the style puzzle, the puns, all things for which I always envy the editor-playing that instrument must be delightful-I feel that there is in the Books section a hard core, indeed the presence of almost stern literary standards...
...town is Hindon. The old editor does not delude himself that Hindon's old days were ever glorious, but the town once did have strength and reasonable expectations. Today, for reasons that are only partly economic, it has turned sick and sour. When Connie Tyler, fresh out of Harvard, came to Hindon in 1900 as a cub reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control...
...lifelong Baptist, Taft started on the Herald as a copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...
More than a Job. In the years since, he has earned the respect not only of Miami churchmen but, more important, of Herald editors and Herald readers. The paper has gradually expanded religious coverage from one Saturday page to at least two, also carries a Taft column on synagogues every Friday, another column, "A Stranger Goes to Church," on Mondays, and regularly uses Taft stories in other weekday editions. Says Herald Managing Editor George Beebe: "We didn't realize what a religion beat meant until Adon took the job. Our church pages are as bright and lively...
Died. Bellamy Partridge, 82, onetime lawyer, journalist, editor, novelist, and droll chronicler of turn-of-the-century Americana, whose 13th book and first success, Country Lawyer, nostalgically portrayed his father and life in an upstate New York village, became a bestseller in 1939-40 and a movie, was followed by ten other works, including two on the automobile-Excuse My Dust and Fill 'Er Up!; of a stroke; in Bridgeport, Conn...