Word: allens
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...Harper, founding Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1850, dedicated it to publishing "an immense amount of useful and entertaining reading matter . . ." Last week with the July issue, Harper's changed its page size-but not its purpose-for the first time in 98 years. Frederick Lewis Allen, sixth in the succession of long-lived editors, firmly assured everybody: "We have altered our clothes but not our personality . . . We are still a magazine for people who know how to read and are willing to make the effort...
Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...
Harper's was the first magazine to buy stories by Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson; today, less literary than its friendly rival, the Atlantic, it is also more concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...
...George E. Allen...
During the first half of his 61 years, Charles Allen Ward worked the waterfronts of China, mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. But his career as a businessman did not really begin until he had served time in Leavenworth on a narcotics charge. Allen's cellmate (income-tax evasion) was Herbert Huse Bigelow, head of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow (calendars, other advertising novelties). Bigelow thought Ward was "made of good clay," asked him what job he wanted with the company when he got out of stir. "Your job, H.H.," said Ward. Replied...