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...Harper's Bazaar, Motor, and Motor Boating; as of Oct. 1; after nearly 13 years employment; to become chairman of Richard R. Smith Inc., book publishers, which he organized last year. His Cosmopolitan successor: Harry Payne Burton, 45, onetime editor of McCall's Magazine, currently editor of Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture and consulting editor of Liberty...
...Bernarr Macfadden, 62, publisher, being free of organic disease or any defect which would interfere with safe handling of an airplane; and having executed five gentle and three steep figure8 turns, three landings and a spiral from 2,000 ft., last week was awarded a private pilot's license by the Department of Commerce...
Having sold their nickel weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden, Publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note...
...rumors. One story possibly attributable to such a source: that Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...
...hands that take Liberty may be just what it needs. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, as Macfadden Publications, Inc., has built up True Story Magazine in five years from an advertising revenue of $1,850,778 to $3,546,345. That he knows about circulation, too, is shown by the fact that his 13 magazines (Physical Culture, True Romance, True Detective Mysteries, etc.) have combined annual circulation of 56,000,000; Liberty's will make him third largest annual circulation-holder in the U. S.* Macfadden announced last week that Liberty's editorial policy would be continued unchanged. Just...