Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once able to pay 10? a word for material, Adventure now gets most of its stuff for about 3? a word. "A good writer.'' says Editor Bloomfield, ''is never paid what he is worth...
...respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure's fiction. That they might find fault with its literary content is no worry of onetime Editor Hoffman, who conducts a correspondence course in writing from his home in Carmel, N. Y. Last week to the anniversary issue he contributed a stout defense of his oldtime magazine against literary critics. His theme...
...Butterick Company sold Adventure to Popular Publications (Dime Detectives, Dime Sports, Horror Stones), one of the better companies which serve 10,000,000 U. S. readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
...copies of the current issue were seized by the police after their chief had been apprised of a letter run in the CRIMSON Saturday morning which had been received from a former editor of the Advocate. The graduate protested that two of the stories were indecent, but requested that his name should not be published...
Vincent Palmer '35, Art Editor of the Lampoon last year, has sent several contributions from Nonsuch Island, where he is working with Dr. Beebe. Besides colored drawings of Dr. Beebe's new home, there is a pen and ink drawing of a hand crumpling a piece of paper, sketched in Palmer's old Lampoon style...