Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will U.S. whites eventually absorb the nation's Negroes-as Italy, Mexico and Portugal have absorbed theirs? So thought James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. "It is now estimated," wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier's last week, "that there are at least between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 persons in the U.S., supposed to be white, who possess Negro blood. . . . Authorities generally agree that between 15,000 and 30,000 . . . Negroes go over to the white side every year...
Traffic Jam. Last week they had plenty of both to talk about. The major cartoon-buying magazines (Satevepost, Collier's, True, This Week, etc.) were using twice as many gag panels as in 1941, and paying more for them. (Prices were up, too, in the New Yorker's exclusive stable.) But competition was getting tougher, even for the 50 artists who make 70% of the sales to the majors...
...market was glutted with cartoons-and editors' offices were jammed on Wednesdays. To solve the traffic problem, Crowell-Collier posted a bulletin-board ultimatum: only 42 artists, all regular sellers, could see the humor editor face to face. The others would have to deal with a secretary or use the mails...
...Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...Curley would hardly have granted an interview to his erstwhile tail-twisters, the Lampoon. So you can don the emerald green and read Collier's for August 10, or you can look up the CRIMSON for April 20 and get the facts--straight from the Mayor's mouth...