\"National Geographic\" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed TLS Dated 1968 for Sale

\"National Geographic\" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed TLS Dated 1968 For Sale

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\"National Geographic\" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed TLS Dated 1968:
$279.99

Up for sale "National Geographic" Frederick Vosburgh Hand Signed TLS Dated 1968.

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Frederick Vosburgh, a former editor of National Geographic magazine and vice president of 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.