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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley 1811-72, American newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, b. Amherst, N.H.
Early Life
His irregular schooling, ending at 15, was followed by a four-year apprenticeship (1826-30) on a country weekly at East Poultney, Vt. When the paper failed, he went briefly to...
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Henry Watterson
Henry Watterson 1840-1921, American journalist, b. Washington, D.C. Throughout most of his life he was known as "Marse Henry." Early in life he became a Washington newspaper reporter. He served with the Confederate army in the Civil War and for a time edited the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Rebel. Aft...
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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American essayist and editor, b. New York City. He was associate editor of the New Republic in its early days (1914-17), but at the outbreak of World War I he left to become Assistant Secretary of War, later helping to prepare data for the peace conference. From 1921 to...
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Darryl Francis Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck 1902-79, American movie producer, b. Wahoo, Nebr. Beginning his Hollywood career as a scriptwriter, he was hired (1924) by Warner Brothers and made a name for himself penning scripts for Rin Tin Tin dog epics. By 1927 he was an executive producer, initiating the sound era with...
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Henry Demarest Lloyd
Henry Demarest Lloyd 1847-1903, American reformer, b. New York City. He was on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune from 1872 to 1885 but resigned to study social problems. His Wealth against Commonwealth (1894) is an attack on monopolies, based especially on an analysis of the Standard O...
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William T. Thompson
William T. Thompson 1812-82, American humorist and editor, b. Ravenna, Ohio. He was founder and editor of the Savannah Morning News, which became one of the most prominent newspapers in Georgia. In his editorials he often defended slavery. He is remembered for his use of dialect in short stories ...
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg 1878-1967, American poet and biographer, b. Galesburg, Ill. The son of poor Swedish immigrants, he left school at the age of 13 and became a day laborer. He served in the Spanish-American War and, after returning to Galesburg, attended Lombard College (now Knox College). In 1902 he we...
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William Allen White
William Allen White 1868-1944, American author, b. Emporia, Kans., studied (1886-90) at Kansas State Univ. As owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette from 1895 until his death, he represented grass roots political opinion throughout the nation. In 1896 his famous editorial, "What's the Matter w...
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Jehudi Ashmun
Jehudi Ashmun 1794-1828, U.S. agent to Liberia, b. Champlain, N.Y. After entering the Congregationalist ministry and spending a few years in teaching and editorial work, he was sent by the American Colonization Society to Liberia. He found the colony ridden with fever, short of supplies, and thre...
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Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler , 1754-1825, English editor. He is best known for his Family Shakespeare (10 vol., 1818), an expurgated edition for family reading that, although attacked for its prudery, was reprinted many times. Bowdler also edited (omitting passages of an irreligious or immoral tendency) selecti...
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