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Roving Reporter Walter Davenport had never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
...Collier's circulation was still up (3,300,000), but its quality was down. A succession of personnel changes and new editorial "formulas" had made some noticeable changes in the magazine. But what Collier's needed most was a personality, and big, loud Lou Ruppel was certainly a personality, audible as well as visible...
Ruppel moved to Crowell-Collier's as assistant to Board Chairman Tom Beck, then joined the Marines. After the war, Hearst hired him, sent him back to Chicago as $40,000-a-year executive editor of the Her aid-American. But Ruppel's slam-bang civic cleanup campaign (DIRTY SHIRT TOWN) backfired, and Hearst bought up his contract...
Moving into Collier's with new Editor Ruppel was a new publisher and old friend: Edward Anthony, 53, who succeeded retiring Publisher William L. Chenery, 64. Anthony will also stay on as publisher of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,755,000), while Tom Beck plans to take a back seat and let the new team do the driving. Where was the team heading? Said Editor Ruppel: "What the editor of a weekly magazine is going to do he has to do once a week. You can read that in the magazine...
Teachers scheduled to speak tonight are William H. Burton, lecturer on the Principles of Teaching; Abram Collier, member of the Wellesley School Board; Clifford McAvoy, educational director of the United Electrical Workers; and Alan B. Overstreet, lecturer on Government...