Word: dystel
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...policy, the monkeys and gag cartoons that have been almost a Collier's trademark, are out. The redesigned cover will display action photographs in color; this week's shows a drum majorette doing a split in mid-air (see cut). The masthead has also been changed. Oscar Dystel, new managing editor, brought in a new art director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers. To pep up its fiction, Collier...
...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...
...Managing Editor Dystel, 35, got his M.A. at Harvard Business School (1937). During the war he worked for OWI, edited the propaganda magazine U.S.A., worked with the Army's Psychological Warfare Branch. In his new job, he is supposed to make Collier's step lively; he is unlikely to step on any toes...
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