Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine world buzzed with rumors about various "Projects X," all being guarded as top-secret until their publishers were good & ready to unveil them. But last week Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. let one project out of the bag even before it got to the rumor stage...
President Thomas H. Beck announced that he had in the works a mass-circulation "international magazine," was talking it up with prospective "associate publishers" abroad. It would look like Collier's, would be edited...
...Jinx Falkenburg's husband. Last week he fixed that one too, by getting Columbia Pictures to release Jinx from her movie contract. (She had to promise to say nothing against Columbia in the two years her contract had to run. "That spiked an article she was doing for Collier's,'" said Tex. "She was going to say she'd graduated from the movies, where she had made straight...
During the war he became one of the world's most widely traveled men, covering some 120,000 miles by plane. His four war books sold 300,000 copies; his war-inspired blank verse, popular but undistinguished, appeared in Collier's and Good Housekeeping. In the past three years his writing brought in $250,000, which went to charities. He became the first archbishop to sell a book to Hollywood, when M-G-M decided to film his wartime parable, The Risen Soldier...
...reprint rights (it now has contracts with "some 40" periodicals), Reader's Digest pays as little as $1,200 a year (to the New Republic), as much as $50,000 (to Crowell-Collier and Curtis Publishing Cos.). Authors who get reprinted are paid $150 per Digest page...