Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart, promotion-minded Condé Nast bought the magazine in 1909 with money saved as Collier's advertising director, made it a semimonthly. His simple advertisingman's formula: bring together people who want to buy something and people who want to sell. That the formula was successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...
Friendly Fellow. That Quentin Reynolds has a nose for incident and a lively narrative style has been amply demonstrated since World War II began. Save for a few visits home to the U.S., he has spent most of the war in Europe as Collier's foreign correspondent. As such, he has covered battle actions (e.g., Dieppe), averaged 20 Collier's pieces plus a couple of books a year, moved enthusiasts to call him the Richard Harding Davis of World...
Married. John Collier, 59, earnest, able U.S. Indian Commissioner since 1933: and Laura Thompson, 37, the University of Chicago's coordinator of Indian Education studies; each for the second time; two days after divorce ended his 37-year-long first marriage; at the Stewart Indian Agency...
When the Army canceled the contracts ($3,800 a year, plus 25% for overseas service), a half dozen magazines saw an opportunity. Collier's signed up Howard Cook. LIFE took over contracts with Bruce Mitchell, Millard Sheets, Aaron Bohrod, Reginald Marsh and eight others. It still is dickering with five more.* Said Editor Boswell: ". . . It will be another example of private enterprise having better judgment of relative values than Government...
...became an elevator boy at the Republican House when he was 13, rarely left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when...