Word: ernestness
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...lows that drive a narrative along. By choice, he did exactly the same thing every working day for 32 years: he sat in the New York City offices of Charles Scribner's Sons and nurtured the talents of others. Because three of those were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, all of whom put their private lives in open books, Perkins' reputation as a remarkable editor passed beyond publishing circles and made him modestly famous. He did not like it. "An editor," he said repeatedly, "should strive for anonymity...
...pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits. And that was it. Colorful and bizarre living he left to his friends. In that regard, Scott and Zelda, Ernest, Tom and the rest rarely let him down...
...Ernest A. Lopez...
...Ernest R. Tison...
...DIED. Ernest Robert Breech, 81, hard-driving executive who helped galvanize an ailing postwar Ford Motor Co.; following a heart attack; in Royal Oak, Mich. Son of a Missouri blacksmith, Breech showed a big-city flak for business management and a wizardry with figures that propelled him to the chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus...