Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Jack made his bow as the leading campaigner for the 1960 presidential nomination; he appeared again on Nov. 24, 1958, front and center among five other Democratic hopefuls. Appropriately, this week's story on the Kennedy clan was written by another Irishman (and father of seven), Associate Editor Richard Oulahan...
...mother until he was "a great big boy." All this is background for the two main relationships in the novelist's adult life: his six-year, mother-son love affair with a married woman nearly twice his age, and his eight-year, father-son working partnership with Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner...
Father & Son. What Aline could not do for his career, Scribner's famed Maxwell Perkins did. The editor trotted to keep up with him on extravagant walks (the 6½ miles completely around Manhattan's Central Park), sat evening after evening drinking with him at the Chatham Walk, where Wolfe could feel the rumble of his beloved trains from the New York Central tracks beneath Park Avenue, and above all shaped Wolfe's raw, spontaneous, poetic prose into Look Homeward, Angel. In time he became alarmed as Wolfe's great fungus of words threatened to expand...
...staid Boston Herald stirred up the biggest tempest with an editorial, "Arts Festival Bludgeon," followed by an avalanche (poorly reasoned, for the most part) of letters to the editor, and another editorial. The first editorial accused the Festival of intentionally "propagandizing" abstractionism, and quoted in support of its stand some remarks by its art critic, Robert Taylor. Internecine strife resulted when Taylor, in hearty disagreement with the editorial, had to have recourse to the letters column in order to disassociate himself from his paper's policy...
...have you seen a theater critic like Brooks Atkinson scrambling in line to buy a seat for the second balcony?" Sutton, with far more justification than most, maintains that no one tells him what to write. But others of his genre admit to an abiding fact of the travel editor's life. "Half of my job is public relations," says the San Francisco Chronicle's Polly Noyes. "Even for the agencies I don't like, I try to get news. If they can't make a story out of something, I do it myself." As long...