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Year and a half ago Publisher Wilfred John Funk of the deFunked Literary Digest started a new publishing venture, a 128-page, digest-size, 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life. Publisher Funk's formula was as simple as it was shrewd: "If I talk about myself I'm a bore. If I talk about other people I'm a gossip. But if I talk about you I'm a damned interesting fellow...
Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...
Last year, looking for a way further to capitalize on his formula, Publisher Funk decided that Your Life was capable of subdivision. He took the charm department of Your Life, christened it Your Personality, fed it with such appetizers as "Woman's Life Is Ruled by Fear" and "I am a Virgin, But-." Started as a quarterly, Your Personality was a full-grown monthly by March...
...ALBERT EINSTEIN-Funk & Wagnalls...
This is the tale of a girl, a voice and some steak with mushrooms. It may sound like a weird combination, but some time ago this writer was taking a leave of absence in Boston, and happened to wander into the Raymor, where Larry Funk's band was playing. Someone was starting to sing "I Cried For You", but no one paid any attention until about three measures had passed. But those three measures and everything that came there-after made up some of the best jazz singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases...