Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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NELSON POYNTER EDITOR-PRESIDENT ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ST. PETERSBURG...
Quietly the church began to move. Ardently pro-Castro Franciscan Father Ignacio Biaín, editor of the important Catholic fortnightly La Quincena, was sent on a more or less permanent vacation. A secret order went out to nuns, designed to expedite their sudden flight if necessary...
...cannot be expected to digest without help, her column stood out in bold and refreshing relief. For years she had been explaining the meaning of economics in terms that anyone could understand. Since no one else was doing it, Sylvia had the field to herself. As James A. Wechsler, editor of her base paper, the New York Post, has said: "Sylvia walked into a vacuum...
...that S. F. Porter exposed, Sylvia showed such flair that the Post ultimately decided her sex had become an asset. "I believe very definitely that the time has come for us to make capital of the fact that S. F. Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph-brought an odd sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From the U.S. Senate floor...
Columnist Porter maintains a political neutrality so absolute that few of her readers realize she was a fervent Kennedy fan. She hustles unashamedly for more papers. On one visit to Dallas, she went up to Times Herald Executive Editor Felix McKnight, tore a dollar bill in two and gave him half. Recalls McKnight: "She said to me, 'I'll give you the other half when you take my column...