Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow's New. Times published a twist on the World War III issue of Collier's magazine (TIME, Oct. 29) and put out its own dream issue. Its theme: what would happen if the great powers signed a peace pact. Highlight was an article by U.S. Communist Author Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast. Said Fast: "It is suspected that a sharp fall of shares [after the pact] was not entirely accidental, and in two of the most conscienceless New York newspapers there was provocation for a Fascist coup . . . Prices fell . . ." But after the great day, Novelist Fast...
...When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents...
Sherwood, one of the top directors of U.S. psychological warfare in World War II, was aghast at the reaction that his lead article on the "history" of World War III stirred up in Washington. One State Department expert on Russia moaned that the Collier's issue might "wipe out all the good our propaganda may have accomplished in the past year" In Europe, non-Communist newspapers denounced Collier's for its "warmongering." Even the United Nations, in whose name Collier's fought the war, lodged an official protest against the magazine...
...Only Collier's was unwilling to admit that the issue was a bad idea. It still insisted last week that the only reason the book had been canceled was because reproducing the art work presented "mechanical and production difficulties." Said Dick Simon: "We hadn't planned to use the art work...
Varsity basketball fans will have a chance to see one of the best games of the year tonight when undefeated Boston College plays the Crimson at 8:30 tonight in the I.A.B. The Eagles were rated 20th in the country in this year's Collier's pre-season predictions and so far have lived up to their notices by winning six straight games...