T. S. Matthews
| Thomas Stanley Matthews | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thomas Stanley Matthews January 16, 1901 Cincinnati, Ohio, US |
| Died | January 4, 1991 (aged 89) Cavendish, England, UK |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Princeton University, Oxford University |
| Occupation | Editor, journalist, author |
| Years active | 1926-1985 |
| Employer | Time (magazine) |
| Known for | Editor at Time magazine |
| Predecessor | Henry Luce |
| Spouse(s) | Juliana Stevens Cuyler (1), Martha Gellhorn (2), and Pamela Firth Peniakoff (3) |
| Children | Thomas S. Matthews Jr., John P. C. Matthews, Paul C. Matthews, W. Alexander P. Matthews |
| Relatives | Margaret Flinsch (sister), Dorothea Dooling (sister), Stanley Matthews (grandfather) |
Thomas Stanley "T. S." Matthews (January 16, 1901 – January 4, 1991) was an American magazine editor, journalist, and author. He served as editor of Time magazine from 1949 to 1953.
Thomas Stanley Matthews was born on January 16, 1901 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was New Jersey bishop, Paul Clement Matthews; and his mother was Elsie Procter the Procter & Gamble heiress. His grandfather was Stanley Matthews.
He earned a first bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1922 and a second from New College at Oxford University in 1925. He joined the staff of The New Republic in 1925. There, literary critic Edmund Wilson encouraged him to write for the magazine. By 1928, he became an assistant editor and by 1929 an associate editor.
He joined Time in 1929 as book editor and moved up to assistant managing editor, executive editor, and managing editor. Finally, he succeeded Time co-founder Henry Luce as the magazine's editor, serving in that position from 1949 to 1953.
Following disagreements with senior management at Time over the 1952 presidential election—which largely concerned the coverage of the Democratic nominee, his Princeton classmate Adlai Stevenson II—Matthews moved to England to study a British version of the magazine. When Time did not carry through, he remained in Britain. There, he wrote numerous books and poetry, including an autobiography and a book on T. S. Eliot. He also reviewed books for the New York Times.
The New York Times credited Matthews with "bringing depth and refinement to the news weekly in a 25-year career." It described him as a "lean, athletic editor" with "clipped, quiet speech was filled with obscure literary references" who rid the magazine of its double-barreled adjectives, puns and backward sentences."Whittaker Chambers, who started after and ended before Matthews at Time, summarized as follows: "T. S. Matthews' contribution to the humanity of Time, both in the intellectual and personal sense of the word, cannot be overstated."
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