home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=91TT0094>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: Died:Thomas Stanley ("T.S.") Matthews
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 47
- </hdr><body>
- <p> DIED. Thomas Stanley ("T.S.") Matthews, 89, critic,
- novelist, biographer, poet, journalist and, from 1943 to 1949,
- managing editor of TIME; in Cavendish, England. Born in
- Cincinnati, Matthews graduated from Princeton and New College,
- Oxford, and joined TIME in 1929 as books editor. When TIME
- co-founder Henry R. Luce named him to lead the magazine through
- the war and postwar period, Matthews responded with
- characteristic candor: "1) I am married, and TIME is not the
- name of my wife. 2) I am not yet completely licked as a writer.
- 3) I hate the Republican Party. 4) As a reader and as a writer,
- I consider TIME badly written..." His editing could be
- merciless. "Choctaw! Try it again in English" was penciled on
- one convoluted effort. Matthews' 15 books include Name and
- Address: An Autobiography, critical studies of English essayist
- Charles Lamb and the poet T.S. Eliot and O My America! Notes
- on a Trip.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-