Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...
...some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against its onetime mixture of 80% fiction, 20% articles (serials were dropped two years...
Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet to the kill...
...Knox also explained that he did not write for profit but to "publicize and popularize the Navy." To the Naval Relief Society and to his ghost writers he had given all the proceeds from four recent magazine articles: from Satevepost, $1,000; Collier's, $1,000; Liberty, $900; American, $750; Post foreign rights...
Witty, vain, gregarious Curt Riess is a former German journalist who went to Paris when Hitler came in, became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...