Edwin Stout (1958)

CRITZ, STOUT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 1/28/2007 at 13:17:22

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 3, 1958

EDWIN STOUT OF NEW YORK DIES

Native of Winterset Was Ranking Newsman and Editor

Edwin Stout, a native of Winterset who became an internationally known newsman and a ranking editor and publisher in the American magazine field, died last Wednesday, Nov. 26, in New York City. Death resulted from a heart attack. He was 53 years of age.

Mr. Stout was born in Winterset on Sept. 3, 1905, one of the six sons born to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stout. His father, for many years, was assistant cashier of the old Madison county Saving bank. His early life was spent in this community, and he was graduated from the Winterset high school. Following the death of his father the family moved to Iowa City, where he graduated from the State University of Iowa with the class of 1928. During his undergraduate days at Iowa, he was married to Velma Critz of Iowa City.

He learned the printing trade on the Daily Iowan at Iowa City, and for several years served as night foreman of that plant. About 1930 he and his wife went to Europe, where he spent a year studying the printing arts on the continent.

He entered the news field as a staff member of one of the wire services in Des Moines, then was transferred to New York City, where he joined the foreign news staff of the Associated Press. During World War II he served as editor-in-charge of the London office of the Associated Press, and was stationed there during the German "blitz" bonbardment which so heavily damaged that city.

Following the war he was with En Guardia, and the Rockefeller committee on Inter-American Affairs. Later he served as assistant executive editor and Pan-American editor of Newsweek magazine, and editor of Quick magazine.

At the time of his death he was serving as editorial director of Vision Inc., which published Printers Ink, a national trade magazine, and Vision, a Spanish language bi-weekly for Latin America.

He was a member of the Overseas Writers and the National Press club of Washington, D. C., and of the Overseas Press club of New York City.

Surviving are his wife, Velma, and son, John aged 13, both of New York City; and four brothers George Stout of Boston, Mass., Albert Stout of Siloam Springs, Ark., Charles Stout of Reno, Nev. and Phillip Stout of Boulder, Colo.

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