Word: format
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sister Dolors added that TIME seemed to be "a very intelligent magazine which gives a wonderful picture of world news. I like the format very much. I hadn't seen it before. It must be quite a new magazine-but, then, I've been in the monastery for 20 years...
...News would offer them. It was not intended that the News should in any way control the literary policies of Signature, but only that the business staff of the News could untangle the Signature financial muddle. The original idea was that Signature could be published in a less expensive format and then circulated with the News. It was hoped that by cutting expenses to the minimum the Signature debt would not increase at its present astronomical rate; the News would then assume responsibility for the remainder of the debt. As far as I know, there was no suggestion whatsoever that...
Where Are They Now? Editor Greenough Smith, rich in journalistic honors, died in 1935. Deprived of his sure touch, the Strand declined rapidly. In World War II, the shortage of good fiction-and paper to print it on-hit the magazine even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want...