Theodore Menline Bernstein (November 17, 1904 – June 27, 1979) was an assistant managing editor of The New York Times and from 1925 to 1950 a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Among many other responsibilities in the 1950s and 1960s, it fell to Bernstein and his colleague, Lewis Jordan, to make up the next day's front page of the Times.
However, under pressure from President John F. Kennedy, publisher Orvil Dryfoos ordered that the story be toned down, and the headline reduced to one column.
The story is told in detail in Without Fear or Favor by former Times editor Harrison Salisbury.
He wrote or co-wrote 7 books[1] on grammar and usage, which have all been reprinted and republished since their first appearances.