Collier's got a new editor last week. To succeed the late Charles Colebaugh, a Collier's man for 27 years who died last week, Publisher William Ludlow Chenery chose a comparative newcomer: 42-year-old Henry La Cossitt. Big-shouldered, vigorous Henry La Cossitt has been Collier's managing editor for a mere four months, has been associated with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (as fiction editor of the American Magazine) only three years.
But Editor La Cossitt is no tyro in his field. Trained at the University of Missouri's journalism school, he was a reporter on the Cleveland...
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