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...Crowell-Collier magazines shook last week with the biggest convulsion since Paul C. (for Clifford) Smith took over the publishing company three years ago. The 80-year-old American Magazine, whose own rise paralleled the go-getting success stories it pioneered, came to an unhappy ending. Smith announced that with its August issue the magazine would fold up, leaving the company with Collier's and Woman's Home Companion. Into Companion went a new editorial regime to snap the magazine out of the doldrums...
...this week's Collier's Surrey claimed that these upper-bracket rates are not strictly enforced. Congress, out of a desire to help those paying such 'fantastically high rates," is constantly creating ways for certain groups to escape from the very taxes it imposes, he asserted...
...make arrests until Specs O'Keefe "sang" about his ten accomplices (TIME, Jan. 23). But Dinneen, who had been beating his competitors regularly on the story, also beat the police. He told the story vividly -and hedged against libel-by disguising it thinly as fiction, first in a Collier's piece, then in his book...
...freshmen are Daniel M. Collier, Jr., Donald A. Millard, John E. Nathan, James S. Spiegler, and Bradford P. Straus. They decided to avoid the cost of three extra listings in the book, besides Straus' free one, by simply formulating a name which would be last in the directory...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...