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...their importance has vastly increased in recent years as U.S. magazines, which were once mostly fiction, have shifted to about 75% nonfiction. Thus, except for the handful of magazines that are largely staff-written, free-lancers have become indispensable. "The free-lancer," says Collier's Editor Roger Dakin. "is the backbone of the magazine industry." He is also the substance of an American dream...
...people have worked with less companionship, few have had to rely more on their own resources." For the top writers magazines compete fiercely. Satevepost pays a new writer $750 for his first piece, then jumps in steps of $250 to as high as $2,500, or even $3,000. Collier's averages $1,500 for an article, the Reader's Digest $2,000, but both magazines go higher. Editors also woo writers by other means, e.g., the Post specializes in "Fast service," tries to give a free-lancer "an answer on an article or an idea within...
...filed a civil complaint charging the industry with "conspiracy" to 1) fix all advertising agency commissions at 15%, 2) deny credit to "nonrecognized" ad agencies that are not members of the trade associations. Defendants named: American Newspaper Publishers Association (801 member newspapers), Periodical Publishers' Association of America (Crowell-Collier, Hearst, Curtis, McCall), Publishers' Association of New York City (all New York dailies except the Herald Tribune), American Association-of Advertising Agencies (311 agencies), Associated Business Publications, Inc. (159 business and trade papers), and Agricultural Publishers Association (35 members, including Farm Journal, Progressive Farmer, Capper's Farmer...
Died. Constance Collier, 77, versatile dramatic actress, cinemactress (Kitty, Wee Willie Winkie), playwright (coauthor: The Rat, Down Hill), producer (Camille, Happy Families), author (Harlequinade) and dramatic coach (pupils: Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
When Walter Camp died in 1925, Rice was asked to pick Collier's All-America football teams. After 50 years of picking them Rice in his autobiography named not only his alltime best college footballers but the best baseball pitchers. Though Dizzy Dean is not on the list ("He didn't pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark...