Word: fawcetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times permitted itself a genteel snicker: EGA UNDERWRITES LAUGHTER FOR GERMANS ; FINANCES COMIC AS WELL AS TRUE LOVE TALES. The story from Berlin, by Timesman Edward A. Morrow, * said that Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...
...reformation was part of a campaign by Fawcett Publications Inc., founded on the late Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, to make itself respectable. The reformer was a drawling newsman named Bill Williams, 42, who had cut his reporter's teeth on crime stories. (Once, he barely escaped death in a crossfire between Dillinger...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...
...Dell, Fawcett, Hillman, Hunter, Ideal and Macfadden, with a combined fan magazine circulation...
...Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett, the brisk, vigorous executive of the World's Sunday School Association. Cinemogul Rank, a Yorkshireman and a conscientious Sunday-school teacher, was about the Lord's business as well...