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5 unusual facts about Ralph Paine


Ralph Paine

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

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.

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

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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