Word: editor
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...Baltimore, Hearst executives tried two years ago to bail the ailing News-Post out of the doldrums by sending in a top troubleshooter. Managing Editor William Townes, 50. Ahead of the prosperous Sun papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as advertisers shunned a paper addressed almost exclusively to the city's trolley travelers. Townes vastly improved the paper, but was pulled out after two years-much too soon to have any permanent effect...
...pages and 5,600 subscribers from a high of 100,000 in the late 1930s, the Daily Worker escaped the grave only by becoming a weekly. Last week, as if giving the lie to its state of chronic poverty, the Worker announced an expansion move. Beginning this week, said Editor James E. Jackson, 45, the Worker will publish a Midwest edition...
...reality, the new edition is only a four-page wrapper for the regular issue. But Editor Jackson spoke bravely of the future: "A modest beginning to a restoration of the larger coverage and service and, we hope, the circulation we once had." Even so, Jackson went right on beseeching partyliners for alms to pay the Worker's debts of about $70,000. For the Worker, prosperity still seems permanently around the corner...
...American, which had been losing money for Hearst for years despite a hefty circulation (some 470,000 today), sold out to the Chicago Tribune. Last week the American's proprietors an nounced that they were moving Reutlinger to one side, making him managing editor of the Sunday edition and editor of the new weekend television magazine. His successor as managing editor: Luke P. Carroll, 44, of the New York Herald Tribune. A Trib veteran of 20 years, Carroll rose from reporter to Chicago correspond ent (1944-49), to news, foreign, national and city editor...
Died. Ellery Sedgwick, 88. editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1908 to 1938, in whose regime circulation rose from 10,000 to 125,000; of a heart attack; in Washington. Sedgwick prided himself on the young authors, e.g., Hemingway, whom he introduced to the public, but he missed on some. Robert Frost recalls his rejection: "We are very sorry but at the moment the Atlantic has no place for vigorous verse." A longtime liberal who used the columns of the Atlantic to champion Sacco and Vanzetti, Sedgwick faced a torrent of criticism in 1938 when he wrote articles...