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Marcia (The Valley of Decision) Davenport spoke up to complain of the occupational hazards of authorship. Leading her list of 22 complaints: constipation, headache, backache, eyeache, nerves, ill-timed insomnia and somnolence, gas and hips...
...only man on Collier's who also does the same job for its sister publications, American and Woman's Home Companion, Gurney Williams okays 30 to 50 cartoons a week, pays $40 to $150 apiece. His new boss, Walter Davenport (TIME, July 22), doesn't see them until they are in print. To keep his contributors on the beam Williams edits a galley-proof monthly called Gagazine (circ. 150), full of chitchat, advice and an occasional gag too rich for Collier's blood. His third updating of the famed Collier's Collects Its Wits album...
After 21 years as associate editor, Davenport moved into the corner office on the 13th floor of 250 Park Avenue. Said he: "I don't know anything about the job- but in a week or so I may." He had been "broadly uneducated" at several schools before he quit the University of Pennsylvania as a sophomore. ("The magazines had bought a few of my stories and it completely ruined me.") As an infantryman in World War I he went from private to captain, was badly wounded...
...hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed if you found another job," Davenport went to Collier...
...same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory tower...