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5 unusual facts about Ralph Paine


Ralph Paine

Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871–1925), American journalist and author

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Ralph Paine, Jr. (1906–1991), his son, American editor and publisher of Fortune magazine

Ralph Paine, Jr.

Paine lamented "I'm about to be fired unless I can find someone who can satisfy Times advertisers without catering to them." Through Yale law professor William O. Douglas, he found that replacement, Eliot Janeway.

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In 1938, he became personal assistant to publisher Henry Luce, the co-founder of Time.

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Paine served as managing editor of Fortune from 1941 to 1953 and, following the departure of Charles Douglas Jackson, publisher from 1953 to 1967.



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