Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...early days of American newspapers, if a big news story broke late or the editor wished to give it special emphasis, he ran it under the caption "Extraordinary Intelligence." As time went on, this cumbersome phrase was reduced to the simple word extra, came to mean a special edition to report some late-breaking, important news...
...Other members: Frank Pace Jr., board chairman of General Dynamics Corp. and onetime (1950-52) Secretary of the Army; Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; James B. Conant, president-emeritus of Harvard and onetime Ambassador to West Germany; Colgate W. Darden Jr., former president of the University of Virginia, former Governor of Virginia and member of Congress; Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand...
...look here. You are fooling yourself. You are depriving yourself of all that makes your life a life. You are letting yourself slip scrapily down the coarse file of pure scholarship. You will find talking to our Managing Editor a good deal easier than hobnobbing with a wounded puma. You will discover that Radcliffe editors do not, actually, devour their young alive. No candidate has ever crawled into University' Hall with the news that he was made to run on beds of broken glass...
Washington editor I. F. Stone last night opened a two-day conference on "Understanding the Cold War" with a plea for a clearer understanding of the "world's murderous motivations" and a completely new attitude towards the cold...
...four, best known to American M. Siminov, member of Presidium of the Union of Soviet and a former Editor of Novy and Literaturnala Gazeta, the USSR's literary journals. One of his Days and Nights, was a 1944 of the Book of the Month Club, his play The Whole World Over been produced in New York...