Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Ted Patrick (editor) wine enthusiasts founded in 1934. Ted lived at 455 East 51st Street in New York City, New York. Ted Patrick (editor) Edwin Hill "Ted" Patrick (1901-1962) was the key American editor for "Holiday Magazine", an influential travel and literary magazine published by the Curtis Publishing Company. Under Patrick's editorship from 1946 and until his death in 1962, the magazine published 215 issues and grew circulation to one million subscribers. The magazine published many famous authors including James Michener, E. B. White, Truman Capote and Lawrence Durell. Patrick was also the founding Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Edwin