Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Parton and his colleagues, among them Author-Historian Bruce (Grant Moves South) Catton and Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., onetime managing editor of LIFE, are busily hatching plans to make their sort of publishing even more successful. Last fall they branched out into television as advisers on a special series of hour-long historical dramas, have helped produce the pilot film of a half-hour TV series on the Civil...
...spite of such seeming offhandedness, the Congressional Record is in a sense a publishing wonder. It is a daily of more than 200 pages, with an average circulation of 42,000, no managing editor, and in the members of Congress, 537 contributors, all free to edit their own copy Printed overnight at a cost of about $16,000 per issue, it is delivered all over Washington earlier than the morning milk. Though the Record has never missed its midnight deadline, only a system as intricately interrelated as a Swiss watch keeps it functioning...
...Arthur Harrison Motley, 59, publisher-president of Parade magazine since 1946, was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will become chairman of the board. Garrulous, cigar-smoking "Red" Motley, who has sold zithers, Fuller brushes and cough syrup, is sometimes called one of the twelve best U.S. salesmen, has hiked Parade's circulation from 2,000,000 to nearly 10 million, its gross from $1,800,000 to $25 million. He considers it his duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam...
...editor he was a brilliant bully. Wells once confessed that he made him feel like a bankrupt undertaker; Classicist Middleton Murry cowered as Harris roared: "God's great fist! You, Murry, wrote this drivel about Paradise Lost?" But Harris befriended Oscar Wilde-though he did not share Oscar's homosexual bent-and the friendship bolstered his social success. It was a time when conversation was still considered a fine art, and Wilde and Harris were two of the greatest conversational artists in London, sought by hostesses for the wit and charm of their anecdotage...
...social climb was not destined to last. As Wilde said of him: "Frank Harris has been to all the great houses of England-once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words and credit. He loved...