Maxine Wood
Maxine Finsterwald (1906 – April 7, 1993) wrote radio scripts, plays, short stories, and newspaper features in the United States. She sometimes used the pen name Maxine Wood. Early life and career She was born Maxine Flora Finsterwald in Marion, Wisconsin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finsterwald were her parents. She grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at Wellesley, Cornell, and Carnegie Institute. She wrote radio scripts for '' Kaffee Klatch'' and '' Playhouse of the Air'' before moving to New York City. Her play ''Giants in Chains'' won the Otto H. Kahn prize in 1928. Her play ''On Whitman Avenue'' was staged in Buffalo and then on Broadway in 1946. It addressed relations between African Americans and whites. Canada Lee was an actor and a producer for the show and Margo Jones directed. She was a supporter of a proposed Conference on Civil and Human Rights organized in the wake of jailings of Communist Party organizers in the United States. Carnegie Mellon University has ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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