Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs were big & small. One was a full issue of Collier's (see PRESS), which not only described a possible war with Russia, but, more significantly, also looked at the shape of a world in which Russia was no longer a threat. Another sign was the thunderous American Legion applause for General Douglas MacArthur and his insistent demand for a clear aim & end. Said MacArthur: "There must exist above all else a spiritual impulse-a will to victory." But MacArthur made it clear that he was not talking of a purely military victory; war with Russia, he insisted...
...Eggnog," Collier's jumped its print order from 3,400,000 to 3,900,000, spent $40,000 extra on articles, almost doubled its usual sale of advertising. It was a sensational journalistic stunt which, as such things often do, grew out of another idea...
...Collier's Fifth Avenue headquarters, the mysterious project was called "Operation Eggnog." The man in charge of it was Associate Editor Cornelius Ryan, who for nine months acted as cloak & daggerish as if he were blueprinting an atomic war. That was just what he was doing...
Last week Collier's unwrapped its own private World War III, its "Preview of the War We Do Not Want." From the first shot "at exactly 1:58 p.m. G.M.T., Saturday, May 10, 1952 ... a terrible Kremlin miscalculation" (the Reds tried to assassinate Tito and occupy Yugoslavia), until the occupation of Russia ("The outcome was inevitable"), the Armageddon took a full, fat, 130-page Collier's issue. It also took a shining constellation of star writers...
...year-old former war correspondent and author, suggested to Publisher Edward Anthony an article on what would happen if the U.S. were occupied by Russia. It gave Anthony a bigger idea: Why not devote an issue to a third world war? Ryan went secretly to work (only a few Collier's staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian...