Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Carr V. Van Anda
Journalist
Centurion, 1920–1945
Charles R. Miller and Robert Underwood Johnson
Georgetown, Ohio
New York (Manhattan), New York
Age fifty-five
Frankfort, Kentucky
Century Memorial
Carr Vattel Van Anda. [Born] 1864. Newspaper man.
Managing Editor of “The New York Times” for twenty-one years and one of the great news editors of all time. He doubted an Einstein figure as it came over the telegraph wire and that scholar conceded that there had been a slip. He questioned a decipherment of a set of Egyptian hieroglyphs relating to Tut-ankh-Amen’s genealogy, and the British Museum changed their translation to conform to his views of it. He could tell you Babe Ruth’s batting average for any year that interested you: in fact, it seems he knew everything. He had a genius for organization in news gathering, marvelous appreciation of news value, and fidelity and fairness and thoroughness in its expression. He was a legend in his lifetime and long will remain one.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials
