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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...
...jampacked meeting on how "current world conditions" affect U.S. women, Publisher Thomas Beck (Crowell-Collier) cried: "The hell with Johnny and his spinach; there are going to be many substitutes for spinach. . . . Are cooking and sewing going to win the war? No! You are going to have to work like men. Industry will win the war. ... If we had less sex distinction, there would be fewer divorces. . . My current wife was making $12,000 a year before she married me, and this ability of hers to do all the things I can do makes her my past, present and future...
...Simultaneously Crowell-Collier announced a $500 rate increase to $7,000 for Collier's, whose circulation has gone up 266,969 since the last boost in April...