Word: fawcetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Roosevelt and Fred Fawcett placed third and second in two races in the B division with Roosevelt at the helm. Fawcett took over for the third race, and the two placed third again to earn a total of 13 points...
Love's biggest pressagent was Fawcett Publications, already a big name in the pulps (True Confessions) and adventure comics (Captain Marvel, Tom Mix). Fawcett's Sweethearts was up to the 1,000,000 mark, and Fawcett's Life Story was runnerup with 700,000 readers. But almost everybody was doing it. At 10? a throw, America's girls & boys, aged 8 to 80, would soon have their pick of 100 love & romance books, published by two dozen different concerns, with an average press run of 500,000 copies. Said Fawcett's Helen Houghton last week...
Hearts v. Chests. The trend was so terrific that some of the old-style confession magazines confessed that they were in trouble. Macfadden Publications, biggest tell-all in the business (True Story, True Romance, Experiences), refused to convert to the new comic format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped out of Macfadden's market: after netting $224,883 in the first quarter of 1949, it reported a second-quarter loss of $11,635. Admitted Macfadden's Dwight Yellen: "No doubt about it-the confession comics have hurt our field...
Appointment of Don W. Fawcett '38, associate in Anatomy at the Medical School, as a "Scholar in Medical Science" by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation was announced last night...
Eight new associates were also appointed in science and medicine. They are : Harry L. Kozol '27, Somers H. Sturgis '27, Alexander S. Macmillan, William A. Meissner, Samuel P. Hicks Don W. Fawcett '38, Douglas M. Surgenor, and Avram S. Goldstein...