Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the Civil War went to 200,000, to become the first truly national U.S. magazine. (First Harper's Editor Henry J. Raymond in his spare time co-founded the New York Times.) Famed for its copious illustrations, it published the greatest contemporary English fiction (Dickens, Thackeray, et al.), plugged U.S. short stories, wrote about science, business, religion, politics, the West. Less literary than its later competitors (Century, Atlantic Monthly), it became a gold mine for historians...
...Maltese Falcon (Warner) is frighteningly good evidence that the British (Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, et al.) have no monopoly on the technique of making mystery films. A remake of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled mystery, it is rich raw beef right off the U.S. range...
...Honky Tonk (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Lana Turner, as a blue-blooded Boston babe, joins the long line of lusty ladies (Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, et al.) who have joyfully succumbed to the bat-eared charms of frog-voiced Clark Gable...
...start of the 1941 season, Cornell loomed as one of the East's weaker outfits, due to the graduation of last year's great crop of Seniors, Matusczak et al, but as the season actually gets under way, the Big Red picture has tended toward the more roseate side...
...Physical Culture is edited by unobtrusive, 36-year-old Ernest V. Heyn, crack movie-magazine editor (Modern Screen, et al.), who went to Macfadden's Photoplay in 1937, last year merged it with Movie Mirror to make it top movie magazine (circ. : 800,000). It stresses health as the foundation of female beauty. With a print order of 275,000, alleged newsstand returns of the new Physical Culture indicated sales double those of the old muscle magazine...