Edward Bok
Edward Bok
Edward William Bok was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was editor of the Ladies' Home Journal for 30 years. Bok is credited with coining the term living room as the name for a room of a house that had commonly been called the parlor or drawing room. He also created Bok Tower Gardens in central Florida...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 October 1863
CountryUnited States of America
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The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
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The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.
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Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.