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Other features included a Personality Institute for women, a children's cut-out called The World Museum, a serialization of Laurence Greene's historical scrapbook of U. S. Journalism, America Goes to Press (TIME, March 30). Publisher Smart and Editor Denby say they will be in the black if they can sell the Esquire feature list to 35 fair-sized papers. With 100 customers, they say they will see big money...
Nevertheless, the drive for advertising continued under the leadership of Maurice L. Farrell, senior partner of F. S. Smithers & Co. and chairman of the Exchange's committee on public relations. An old-time newshawk who was once managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, Broker Farrell last week won a heroic victory. For the first time in 144 years, except for a brief period during the War when it unbent as a patriotic duty to participate in prompting the sale of Liberty Bonds, the New York Stock Exchange published paid advertisements...
Died. Harriet Monroe, 75, Chicago poet, founder & editor of the magazine Poetry, which first published the poems of Hilda Doolittle ("H. D."), Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; of cerebral hemorrhage; at Arequipa, Peru...
Bernard DeVoto began last month as editor of one of America's least read magazines, the Saturday Review of Literature. The Saturday Review of Literature is the kind of magazine you find on public library tables and under the green-shaded gas lamps of the aged but literate spinsters of Beacon Hill. It is ever so slightly intellectual, and ever so slightly classy...
...grads so indiscriminately that they demanded his resignation. But when he quit the number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...