Word: freemans
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Alexander Gottschalk of Straus; Ehoneser Gay. Jack J, Neuser, Larson M. Powell of Thayer; William J. Cates, Warren H. Markarian of Weld; John II. Freeman Claude E. Hootott, Jr., Clifford J. Meyer, Anthony S. Patton of Wigglesworth...
Suzanne LaFollette, now in her 50s and freelancing, was one of the three journalists who once more revived The Freeman. The others: John Chamberlain, 47, author (The American Stakes), onetime book reviewer for the New York Times and Harper's and editorial writer for LIFE until his resignation last week, and Henry Hazlitt, 55, longtime (1934-46) editorial writer for the Times and contributing editor of Newsweek...
After hearing the LaFollette-Hazlitt-Chamberlain plan, he decided to fold up faltering Plain Talk and transfer the 5,000 unexpired subscriptions to The Freeman. He became treasurer and helped to raise $130,000 (of which Kohlberg contributed 10%). Names of other supporters were a resolutely-kept secret...
Something Positive. The Freeman's editors plan to break away from the rigidly anti-Communist diet of Plain Talk, "go on to something more positive." Says Chamberlain: "The fight [against Communists] has been won domestically . . . You don't have to keep telling people that Communists have techniques of getting into organizations and are pretty good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky...
Press run for the first issue was 37,000 copies, a deliberate overrun. The Freeman hopes the circulation will settle down to 12,000, gradually work up to the break-even point of 35,000. If it takes longer than a year to do so, more cash may be needed. But the editors think the risk of the new magazine worth taking...