Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase of 400,000 over the fourth quarter of 1952. President Stouch blamed Collier's decline on competition from television, even though other magazine men pointed out that such weeklies as the Satevepost and LIFE have not suffered from TV. Collier's expects to run more fiction, more serials and more articles that appeal to women, thus "be a better buy for Collier's readers and a better buy for Collier's advertisers...
Amidst the news of its big change, Collier's more quietly attended to a small one. Editor Roger Dakin, who recently fired Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon after Collier's had received unsupported charges that Moon once belonged to Communist-front organizations (TIME, April 27), last week fired Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, 30. Farrell, who had been Moon's boss, had refused to fire Moon himself and had also signed a protest from Collier's entire fiction staff against the discharge. Editor Dakin insisted that Farrell's firing had nothing to do with his argument...
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A man of action confronts life with one of the most affirmative philosophies in recent fiction; a modern Greek masterpiece by last year's runner-up for the Nobel Prize (TIME, April...
...contact between the president's office and the athletic office. And when Hall wasn't busy trying to push Yale back into the big time he sat at the head of the N.C.A.A. television committee, trying to force the rest of the nation's universities to keep up the fiction that football is a business, not a sport...
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A man of action confronts life with one of the most affirmative philosophies in recent fiction; a modern Greek masterpiece by last year's runner-up for the Nobel Prize (TIME, April...