Smith's Weekly - Some Noteworthy Employees

Some Noteworthy Employees

Editors-in-Chief

• Claude McKay 1919-1927
• Frank Marien 1928-1936
• Harry Cox 1938-1939
• Kenneth Slessor June–September 1939
• Claude McKay 1939-1950

Editors

• Reg Moses 1930-1935
• Kenneth Slessor 1935-1939
• George Goddard 1939-1947
• Edgar Holt 1947-1950

Artists

• Stan Cross
• Les Dixon
• George Donaldson
• Frank Dunne
• John Endean
• George Finey
• Charles Hallett
• Cec Hartt 1919–1930 also pub. Humorosities (1920?)
• Mollie Horseman
• Eric Jolliffe
• Joe Jonsson
• Alex King
• Joseph Lynch
• Lance Mattinson
• Emile Mercier
• Syd Miller
• Norm Mitchell
• Joan Morrison
• Jim Phillips Walkley awards 1960, 1962
• Virgil Reilly
• Jim Russell
• Alex Sass (also commonly Alec or Alek) (real name Alexander Phillip Williams) Art Editor

Crime reporters

• Vince Kelly, who also wrote:

Guarded Pearls (1948)

The Shadow - Australia's underworld cop (1954) - about Frank Fahy

The Bogey Man - the exploits of Sergeant C J Chuck, Australia's most unpopular cop (1956)

Rugged Angel - the amazing career of policewoman Lillian Armfield (1961, 1995? ISBN 0-646-23680-6)

The Shark-arm Case (1963, 1975 ISBN 0-207-13212-7)

The Charge is Murder (1965)

• Harry Maddison

Writers and reporters

• George Blaikie 1931–1950
• Clem Cleveson
• Reg Harris (later press secretary to several Federal Ministers)
• Bernard Hesling
• Errol Knox (later Sir Errol of the The (Melbourne) Argus)
• Henry Lawson
• Lennie Lower
• Ronald McCuaig
• Alex MacDonald (previously scriptwriter for 'Mo' Roy Rene)
• Adam McKay (literary editor)
• Reg Moses 'Mo' (satirist) 1920–1935
• John O'Donnell
• John Quinn (poet) 1945–1947
• Dick Randall (finance editor) 1930s (later Sir Richard Randall)
• Kenneth Slessor
• Gus Walker

Sports writers

• Jim Donald (boxing)
• Tom Foley (racing)
• Cliff Graves (racing)

Advertising

• Ernie Brewer
• Hugh Dash (later press secretary to Prime Minister Menzies)
• William Gasnier (later father of Rugby League star Reg Gasnier)