Editors Leo Huberman was labor editor.
Writers I. F. Stone was the paper's
Washington correspondent. He published an award-winning series on European
Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade to reach
Palestine (later collected and published as
Underground to Palestine). Staffers included theater critic
Louis Kronenberger and film critic
Cecelia Ager.
Kenneth G. Crawford wrote for
PM from 1939 to 1942. The sports writers were
Tom Meany, Tom O’Reilly and George F. T. Ryall, who covered
horse racing. Sophie Smoliar was the New York City reporter working frequently with photographer Arthur Felig ("Weegee") (submitted by her son and a collection of her original articles).
Elizabeth Hawes wrote about fashion, and her sister Charlotte Adams covered food.
Contributors Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published more than 400 cartoons on
PM's editorial page.
Crockett Johnson's
comic strip Barnaby debuted in the paper in 1942. Other artists who worked at
PM included
Ad Reinhardt, one of the founders of Abstract Expressionism, and
Joseph Leboit; both contributed margin cartoons and drawings. Noted artist
Jack Coggins contributed wartime artwork for at least nine issues between 1940 and 1942.
Coulton Waugh created his short-lived strip,
Hank, which began April 30, 1945, in
PM. The story of a disabled
G.I. returning to civilian life,
Hank had a unique look due to Waugh's decorative art style, combined with dialogue lettered in upper and lower case rather than the accepted convention of all uppercase lettering in balloons and captions. Some dialogue was displayed with white lettering reversed into black balloons.
Hank sought to raise questions about the reasons for war, and how it might be prevented by the next generation. Waugh discontinued it at the very end of 1945 because of eyestrain. Cartoonist
Jack Sparling created the short-lived comic strip
Claire Voyant, which ran from 1943 to 1948 in
PM, and which was subsequently
syndicated by the
Chicago Sun-Times. Cartoonist Howard Sparber (
né Howard Paul Sparber; 1921–2018) contributed after World War II. The Argentine Cartoonist
Dante Quinterno publishes:
Patoruzú his successful strip in South America. Other writers who contributed articles included
Erskine Caldwell, Myril Axlerod,
McGeorge Bundy,
Saul K. Padover,
James Wechsler, eventually the paper's editorial writer,
Penn Kimball, later a professor at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
Myril Axelrod Bennett,
Heywood Hale Broun,
James Thurber,
Dorothy Parker,
Ernest Hemingway,
Eugene Lyons,
Earl Conrad,
Benjamin Stolberg,
Louis Adamic,
Malcolm Cowley,
Tip O'Neill (later
Speaker of the House; and
Ben Hecht. Lee Rogow regularly contributed a short short story on Saturday from February 1 through June 6, 1948.
Photographers Weegee,
Margaret Bourke-White,
Ray Platnick and
Arthur Leipzig were the primary photographers. •
Julius "Skippy" Adelman (born around 1924) • John Albert 1910–1972) • Bernie Aumuller
(né Bernard A. Aumuller; 1920–1971), his father, Bernard George Aumuller (1895–1975) was also a photographer • Gene Badger •
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) • Hugh Broderick
(né Hugh J. Broderick; 1910–1971) • William "Bill" Brunk
(Los Angeles Examiner) • John S. DeBiase (1901–1954) • John Derry • Stephen Derry • David Eisendrath, Jr.
(né David Benjamin Eisendrath; 1914–1988) •
Morris Engel (1918–2005) • Alan Fisher • Morris Gordon (1918–2005) • Irving Haberman
(né Isaac Haberman; 1916–2003) • Martin Harris (1908–1971) • Dan Israel •
Charles Fenno Jacobs (1904–1974) • Dan Keleher,
(né Daniel J. Keleher, Jr., 1908–1952) • Peter Killian •
Arthur Leipzig (né Isidore Leipzig; 1918–2014) •
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) • Leo Lieb
(né Morris Leo Lieb; 1909–2001) •
Ray Platnick (né Raphael Platnick; 1917–1986) •
Weegee,
(pseudonym of Arthur (Usher) Fellig (1899–1968) • Mary "Morrie" Morris
(né Mary Louise Morris; 1914–2009), one of the first female
AP photographers and pioneer of white umbrellas used give a softer look to flash lighting and portraiture. She, in June 1937, married filmmaker
Ralph Steiner. In 1963, she married classical record producer for
Mercury, Harold Lawrence
(né Harold Levine; 1923–2011), who, at the time, was the General Manager of the
London Symphony Orchestra Contributing photographers •
Robert Capa (1913–1954) •
Walker Evans (1903–1975) •
Edward Weston (1886–1958) •
Edward Steichen (1879–1973) •
Ralph Steiner (1899–1986)
Sunday magazine section Picture News was the Sunday magazine section of
PM. : Editor: William Thomas McCleery (1912–2000) : Managing editor: Herbert Yahraes
(né Herbert Conrad Yahraes, Jr.; 1906–1985) : Associate editors: Lorimer Dexter Heywood (1899–1977), Kenneth Stewart, David Rodman Lindsay (1916–1985), Peggy Wright, Gertrude Stamm : Staff:
Raymond Abrashkin (1911–1960), Skippy Adelman,
Holly Beye (née Helen Beye; 1922–2011), W. Russell Bowie, Jr. (1920–2002) (son of
Walter Russell Bowie), Mary Morris
(maiden; 1914–2009), Charles Norman (1904–1996), Roger Samuel Pippett (1895–1962), Robert Rice (1916–1998), Selma Robinson
(maiden; 1899–1977) (mother-in-law of
Hymen B. Mintz), Dale Rooks
(né Rhine Dale Rooks; 1917–1954) (photographer),
Lillian E. Ross (née Lillian Rosovsky; 1918–2017) : Art director: H. Russell Countryman ==See also==