When editors were gods

Ah, that explains it!

This 1957 promotion for The Saturday Evening Post bravely attempts to answer the perennial question "What does an editor do?," with the assistance of Marilyn Monroe.

The recumbent man in the photo is Pete Martin, a Post senior editor who was known primarily as a writer and celebrity interviewer. The ad appeared in the trade magazine Advertising Age.

 

 

 

 

 

R.I.P. Ellen Levine

Ellen Levine, the longtime (and very gracious, in my experience) editor of Good Housekeeping magazine, died on Nov. 6 at age 79. Levine was, remarkably, the first female editor-in-chief in the magazine's 109-year history when she got the job in 1994, succeeding John Mack Carter.