Life
Phillips was born in New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. Phillips earned a B.A. from City College where he studied philosophy and came to admire the modernist movement in literature. He also took graduate literature courses at New York University.
In 1933, he married Edna Greenblatt, who worked as a high school teacher. She died in 1985. In 1995, Phillips married Edith Kurzweil, who ultimately succeeded him as editor of the magazine.
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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
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