"Managing editor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... o'clock, in the afternoon, until three o'clock in the morning, every day of the week except Friday. Those are not fit hours for a married man—especially a young married man. So it was fortunate for me that my managing editor thought I might have possibilities as a special writer, and relieved me from ...
— Making the House a Home • Edgar A. Guest
... fellow-reporters who, like myself, came to scoff, and remained to pray, was Henri Pene du Bois, for some time, until his recent death, the brilliant critic of art and music of the American. Then he was on the Times, and Henry N. Cary, now of the Morning Telegraph, was his managing editor. ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... who was sitting despondently at the managing editor's desk, jabbing at the blotting sheet with ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine
... that he walked into the office of that paper as its sole owner and proprietor, he called the managing editor to him ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... of subordinate writer; and for a time he maintained it with considerable ability. But he grew restless under restraint; and at length, taking advantage of the managing editor's absence, he published articles on prohibited subjects, which lost the paper half its subscribers, and him his situation. When next heard of, he was gaining a meagre subsistence by writing theatrical puffs,—employment for which he was indebted ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... Without Straw" been written as a "Sunday special" by a horse-editor of any daily paper in Texas, the managing editor would have chucked it into the waste- basket and advised the young man that journalism was not his forte. It is a rambling fragmentary piece of mental hodge-podge, in which scraps of school book Egyptology, garbled Bible stories, ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann |
