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Joseph C. Furnas--Writer, free lance. Has published in Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Look, The Ladies' Home Journal, and others. Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. "Voyage to Windward...
John O. Whedon--Writer. Has published in Collier's New Yorker, Harper's, and others. In Hollywood, wrote for Ronald Colman, Groucho Marx, Noel Coward, Carole Lombard, Alexander Woolcott, Madeleine Carroll, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Did Duffy's Tavern script...
Advertising revenue also was down; it was well below 1948, the year before Ruppel came in. But recently Ruppel ran into trouble from a different source. Last February, with a splash of full-page newspaper ads, Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...
Retreat. After the articles appeared, Millionaire McCormack and his lawyer demanded a letter of retraction from Crowell-Collier President Stouch. Stouch gave him a letter, and McCormack distributed it. Recently it was printed for the first time in an obscure Manhattan vegetable and fruit trade paper, Produce News...
Said Stouch's letter: "The sole purpose of Collier's in publishing the articles . . . [and] the advertisements . . . was to make comment on matters of vital interest and importance to our country. We never intended the term 'Mr. Big,' as applied to you, to have any connotation of evil or association therewith, or to reflect on your integrity, or to imply that you are allied with racketeers, gangsters and mobsters. We will not republish the articles or advertisements, nor will we give our assent to the republication thereof. We are confident that your and our interest...