The Press: Resignations

Resignations from the editorial staffs of TIME Inc., effective Jan. 1:

TIME: T.S. (for Thomas Stanley) Matthews, 52, who joined the editorial staff in 1929 as a book reviewer. Quickly advancing to Books editor, Matthews became a general editor in 1937 and was appointed managing editor in 1943. In a decade of great expansion, during which TIME’S circulation doubled, he established higher standards of good reporting, good thinking, good writing. A year ago it was hoped that he might launch an English edition of TIME, and when that proved impracticable, he resigned in order to be free to undertake another project, not yet announced.

LIFE: Daniel Longwell, 54, had been informally associated with TIME from its earliest years. In 1934, he left Doubleday, Page & Co. after a brilliant career there, in order to develop plans for the first real picture magazine in the U.S. He played a key part in the conception of LIFE, “of which he was a senior editor from Volume 1, No. 1 (1936). With imagination and good taste, he helped LIFE attain the distinctive pictorial reflection of American culture and custom, fact and fun, which became a major part of LIFE’S journalistic heritage. He served as LIFE’S second managing editor from 1944 to 1947, thereafter as chairman of its board of editors. From this post he retired last summer for reasons of health.