"National Geographic" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale
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"National Geographic" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
$299.99
Up for sale "National Geographic" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
the National Geographic Society, died of pneumonia Feb.16 at Shady Grove, Md.,
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 100. Mr. Vosburgh, who was the
magazine's editor for three years, retired in 1970 after 37 years with the
organization. He was known for devotion to scrupulous accuracy. According to an
internal history of the magazine, his exactitude and precision caused some colleagues
to say he had "an instinct for the capillary." When the July 1964
issue was being printed, Mr. Vosburgh, then the associate editor, halted the
presses because a restrictive comma had been omitted from an article. He
promptly inserted the punctuation, but the story of the $30,000 comma often
would be quoted as an example of his insistence on the accuracy of details. During
his editorship, the magazine comprehensively covered the first moon landing and
instituted a series of "traveler's maps." The December 1969 issue,
with a supplement LP of the Apollo 11 astronauts' radio transmissions, quickly
became a collector's item. Despite Mr. Vosburgh's trepidation over interjecting
the magazine into policy debates he consented to the calls of younger staff members
and published, as the cover story on his final issue, the magazine's first
extensive environmental report, "Our Ecological Crisis." Mr. Vosburgh
was born in Johnstown, N.Y. He spent seven years with The Associated Press in
New York and Washington before joining National Geographic in 1933. He became
assistant editor in 1951 and associate editor in 1957. He ascended to the
position of editor in 1967.
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