found: Contemporary Authors, via WWW, September 4, 2015(Harrison Gray Platt; born April 27, 1902 in Portland, Ore.; died September 17, 1992, in New York, NY; son of Harrison Gray (an attorney) and Nelly (Durham) Platt; married Rhoda Failing Burpee, August 19, 1925 (divorced, 1943); married Mary Alice Kaye, December 30, 1943; children: (first marriage) Harrison Gray III, William Brewster; Reed College, B.A., 1925; Yale University, graduate study, 1925-1926; Harvard University, M.A., 1927, additional graduate study, 1928-1930; Brown University, Providence, R.I., instructor in English, 1930-1938; Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, Ill., editor, 1941-1943; Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., associate editor, 1944-1954, editor in general publications department, 1954-1960; C. L. Barnhart, Bronxville, N.Y., technical editor of reference books, 1960-1961, managing editor, 1961-1963; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, N.Y., chief dictionary editor, 1963-1978; managing editor, Dictionary of U.S. Army Terms, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, and World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary, two volumes, Field Enterprises Educational Corp., 1963; editor-in-chief, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich School Dictionary, Harcourt, 1968, 1972, 1977; contributor to American College Dictionary, Random House, 1947; contributor of short stories, poems, articles, and reviews to magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Daily News, and Chicago Tribune)
