Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whiz & Whir. Harper's, like everyone else, was amazed that in the new Pullman car "you converse as you would in your parlor at home." By 1896, it somewhat sadly admitted that progress and speed were everywhere and "the hum of the trolley is in the air ... we can only have peace by moving on with the whirring, whizzing world...
...Harper's barely kept up with the whizzing journalistic world. In the depression of the 1890s, it almost went under. Only in the nick of time did J. P. Morgan bail it out with fresh funds. In the mid-'20s, the emphasis on illustration and fiction that had won Harper's its fame was jettisoned as Harper's changed with the changing times. The magazine began to concentrate on current affairs...
Editor Allen, the sixth man to hold the post, thinks that Harper's present circulation (159,357) is adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make...
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...
Mainly for something to talk about, Sperry spoke of what he had been reading. He mentioned Harper's Magazine ("I don't think I know that one," said the teacher), the Atlantic Monthly ("I don't think I know that one," she repeated), and several books. As far as Sperry could see, the English teacher didn't do any reading at all. With three children of his own just about ready to enter school, he began to wonder what sort of education teachers get. In the next two years, he visited dozens of teachers' colleges...