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Ray Long
William Ray Long, more commonly known as Ray Long (March 23, 1878 – July 9, 1935) was an American newspaper, magazine, film, writer, and editor〔 who is notable for being the editor-in-chief of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine between 1919 and 1931. He is said to have had "a colorful career"〔 before he was affected by financial problems and ended up committing suicide.
==Life and career==
Long was born into poverty in 1878 in Lebanon, Indiana, a small, rural town in the Midwestern United States. He was educated in public schools in Indianapolis, a much larger city and the capital of Indiana.〔 His first job was being a page on the Superior Court in Indianapolis.〔 He later acquired an interest in newspapers and magazines and became a copy boy on the Indianapolis News.〔 He became a reporter at the young age of 22, and later worked for many other newspapers and magazines, such as the Indianapolis Star, Kansas City Post, Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, and Hampton's Magazine.〔
Long was a police reporter for the Cincinnati Post, and he was made the managing editor of this newspaper when he was 20 years old due to a shake-up at this newspaper.〔 He created a staff to help him out, all of whom were 24 years old or younger.〔 This staff included Roy Howard and O. O. McIntyre, among others.〔 Long helped some editors, writers, and reporters advance their careers, such as Peter B. Kyne, Ring Lardner, Dean Cornwell, Damon Runyan, Royal Brown, and "a lot of "other good (writers )"".〔 Long also worked with many other reports, including Booth Tarkington, Roy W. Howard, Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and other reporters from Indiana.〔
His good writing and editing skills allowed for him to get promoted to better positions. Long was the Chicago manager for the United Press at one point in time, and he was the managing editor of ''The Red Book'' in Chicago in 1912, a position that he received due to his good ability to understand people's tastes and likes.〔 Long said that he looked at words and articles by how they sounded ("by ear"), rather than by seeing if they were grammatically correct or full of information and knowledge.〔 William Randolph Hearst gave Long the position of President and editor-in-chief of the International Magazine Company, Inc..〔 This allowed him to edit the Cosmopolitan magazine, as well as other magazines, such as Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Motor, and Motor Boating〔 His salary and bonuses combined at Cosmopolitan were $180,000 a year, a sum which is several times higher today due to inflation.〔 He said that his secret to becoming a successful editor "was giving the public the kind of things he himself liked to read."〔 This even caused him to reject the publication of Ernest Hemingway's Fifty Grand.〔 Time Magazine considered his greatest publication at the time to be The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.〔
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