Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Jerome Ellison (briefly managing editor of Collier's and Liberty) realistically guessed where part of the trouble lay: his name-in-lights stable "have to earn livings, and they've got to sell to other markets too." To his stockholder-contributors went an urgent "special request": "We need masterfully written short stories, and articles, that will make the nation stop to read. You can insure your investment by routing '47-ward the two finest pieces you produce in the next twelve months...
...other two were Georgia's Charlie Trippi and Notre Dame's Quarterback Johnny Lujack. Last week, with every sports editor puffing into print with his own All-America team, the same four men turned up on almost everybody's list. Only Grantland Rice-who picks Collier's All-America team, the nearest thing to an official selection-was different. Granny Rice couldn't decide between Lujack and Army's Arnold Tucker, finally took the easy way out by picking a five-man backfield...
...gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat...
...five-year-old Sunday supplement Parade was the first of Marshall Field's newspaper ventures to show a profit. Last winter, aiming to keep it showing, Field went shopping for a topflight adman. At Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. he found his man: red-haired Arthur H. Motley, 46, onetime Fuller brushman, who had done wonders as publisher of the American Magazine. To help "Red" Motley make up his mind, Field offered to share Parade's ownership with...
Last week Parade made another raid on the Crowell-Collier reservation. This time Publisher Motley, looking for a new editor, grabbed 33-year-old Ken W. Purdy from his job as editor of Crowell's long-projected international picture magazine. Purdy was tired of waiting for his bosses to decide when to launch their complicated, multilingual project...