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Scene was Louisville's Brown Hotel, Parlor A and a room three floors above. On Nov. 20, Thanksgiving, Fawcett Publications Inc. (True Confessions, et al.) circulation supervisors met there to plan sales promotion for the year ahead...
...first morning session Chicago Promotion Manager Ed Dress opened the French windows to clear the smoke-filled room. "My God," he shouted, "here's a mike." It was attached by safety pin to the drape. Fawcett men traced the wires to a room three stories above. The spy had fled, hearing all was discovered, he had paused only long enough to cut his end of the dictagraph loose, grab his hat and coat. Behind him he left luggage, laundry, razor, expense account, unpaid bill. He was registered "J. P. Wriegel, 5 East 34th Street, New York," which...
Isadore N. Rosenberg 1M, Boston; Christopher T. Bever 1M, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irving M. London 2M, Malden; George S. Kurland 1M, Dorchester; Richard C. Webster Jr. 2M, Glen Arm, Md.; Don W. Fawcett 3M, West Branch, Ia; and James B. Tobias '41, Fremont...
Nothing much happened, so one day last fortnight the Mayor acted. He sent out 40 Department of Sanitation garbage trucks to round up copies of a new magazine titled Man to Man, published by Country Press, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., whose prosperous publishing business was founded on the late Captain Billy Fawcett's rowdy Whiz Bang (TIME...
Three eminent Manhattan humorists-James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Stanley Walker-turned out to be contributors to Man to Man. They had once sold some pieces (sample title: How to Poker) to a naughty little journal called For Men formerly published by Country Press. Fawcett editors had resurrected their pieces from the files...