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...sold a record $2,867,000 worth of ads, half again as much as last year. For the 13th quarter in a row, circulation was also up. With 2,910,104 (up 361,000 in a year), the picture magazine had almost caught up to Collier's (see below), currently less than 14,000 ahead...
When crusty old (66) Thomas H. Beck, board chairman of Crowell-Collier, rolled up his sleeves and went to work on Collier's a month ago, the weekly was still making money, contrary to rumors. But Tom Beck, with a worried glance at Look (see above), thought Collier's needed a good shaking up. Last week he shook...
...from his office went a memo: "Oscar Dystel, former editor of Coronet magazine, has been appointed managing editor of Collier's, vice [in place of] Joe Alex Morris, resigned . . ." When Joe Morris, who already had the bad news, saw the memo, he took a pencil, crossed out the word "resigned," and walked...
...Crowell-Collier bosses were vague about the firing. Said Publisher William L. Chenery: They just thought "a different type of mind in the job would make for a stronger team . . ." Snapped Morris: "That's a better answer than...
...After sorting through 40 crates of the late Harry Hopkins' papers, Author Robert E. Sherwood published the latest collection of recollections about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Items from the first installment (now running in Collier's):1) in 1939 Hopkins seriously considered himself a likely candidate for President and thought F.D.R. did, too; 2) Winston Churchill, admiring Hopkins' ability to get conferences down to brass tacks, called him "Lord Root of the Matter...