Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College Humor clung to the 35¢ price in the face of the Depression long after Cosmopolitan came down. Although Cosmopolitan's circulation rose only 20,000 with the price cut, College Humor was forced to follow suit. Its own circulation, which on some issues had soared as high as 350,000, dropped to an average of 180,000 last year. In December it was 142,000. Two prime reasons:1) College students, with trouble enough paying school bills, hesitate to spend the price of a meal for magazine amusement; 2) Ballyhoo, at 15¢ made deep inroads...
Babies: Just Babies will be of the approximate size and format of Physical Culture or Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Its purpose will be to aid young parents, to be helpful and entertaining "in a decidedly high class way." Its contents will include articles on care and feeding of children under five years, fiction concerning parents & babies, features for very young readers, many illustrations of babes...
...rheumatism, arthritis, sciatica, neuritis; that he charges $1 to those who can afford it; that his treatments, consisting solely of manipulation of the feet, last about 20 sec. each. Impressed, Author Beach wrote an article on "The Pain Killer" which appeared in the August Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (circulation 1,700,000) with photographs of Dr. Locke, his clinic, his strong hands. Seventeen afternoon Hearst papers (circulation 3,200,000) spread the story...
...whole body of Chinese novels before she herself wrote. She is now translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused." But Mrs. Buck is sturdy, composed. She has watched Chinese love, starve, kill, die. She knows that "in China interest centres about the work produced and not about the person who produces...
...such contract, probably at a figure nearer $25,000 but involving also serializing in Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine, Publishers Farrar &; Rinehart and Author Bromfield's lawyer still seem to be haggling. In oblique reference to the possible serializing of Bromfield, his old publishers say of his current offering: "This novel has not appeared in any periodical." Other Stokes-Bromfield books: The Green Bay Tree, Possession, A Good Woman, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Twenty-Four Hours...