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Reporter, Boston Record-American; assistant television producer, World Video; seasonal park ranger, Shenandoah National Park; editorial department. American Telephone and Telegraph; editorial department, Collier's; translator, export, division of Kaiser-Frazer; and a position in the South American branch of the First National Bank of Boston...
...used to be the vivacious, red-haired toast of New York. She earned $1,500 a week, kept a Rolls-Royce for herself and a "nice Packard" for her mother. She lived in a whirl of furs, maids and flowers, and married Follies Producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Last week in Collier's, Billie reminisced about the great Flo and the gaudy...
...died in 1930, would barely recognize as his baby. Last year, it did more business than the next two women's magazines, Good Housekeeping and McCall's, combined. At a quarter a copy, circulation is a booming 4,520,982, three-quarters of a million over Crowell-Collier's second-place Woman's Home Companion...
Under a new cover policy, the monkeys and gag cartoons that have been almost a Collier's trademark, are out. The redesigned cover will display action photographs in color; this week's shows a drum majorette doing a split in mid-air (see cut). The masthead has also been changed. Oscar Dystel, new managing editor, brought in a new art director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers...
...Davenport wrote a soothing message to advertisers that it was really the same old magazine. "We appear in this issue in new clothes," said he, "as all men and things must from time to time for the good of their souls." And, might have added, for the good of Collier's circulation...