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Buyers of the magazine were able Adman George S. Fowler, vice president of Pictorial Review since last April, and Lee Ellmaker, lately general manager of Macfadden Publications and publisher of Liberty since Macfadden bought it. Large and fat, Lee Ellmaker has the reputation of being a shrewd publisher. With the financial help of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott Vare, whom he had previously served as secretary, he established the tabloid Daily News in Philadelphia, built it up to be a moneymaker, sold control to Macfadden, whose only successful newspaper it now is. Because of his flair for economy...
...geles Evening Express (reputedly for $2.800.000) ten months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they had traded papers in Pittsburgh. Detroit and Milwaukee. But Publisher...
...Editor, during those trying seven years of Van Tassel to Forker to Drake during which Harper's Bazaar became a valuable property, was the now noted observer, successful Adman and happy TIME reader...
First floral offering to be delivered to Col. Knox was a large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled...
...Parade was the big moment in the youthful career of W. Holden White, 25, publisher and chairman of the board, and his good friend Winsor B. French, 25, cofounders. Publisher White is the polo-playing scion of the family which founded The White Co. Director French is a vivacious adman, versifier, socialite. For excellence of photography and art, credit is given to a young Clevelander, Jerome Brainerd Zerbe Jr., himself an able sketcher...