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...success. The first day the Life-modeled magazine went on the stands, the press run of 750,000 copies was sold out before noon. Within six months its circulation soared to more than 1,600,000. Under Editor Tom Hopkinson, Picture Post became a valuable property in Publisher Edward Hulton's* chain (Lilliput, Farmers Weekly, Housewife). Hopkinson skillfully blended sex, crime and sports features with campaigns against appeasement of Hitler and British unemployment. During World War II, Picture Post's picture coverage was Britain's best, and after the war it was responsible for such exposes...
...aboard crashed into the sea. Among the 25 lost were four war correspondents bound for the front: James 0. Supple, 34, of the Chicago Sun-Times; Albert Hinton, 46, of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide and other Negro papers ; Stephen Simmons, 32, of Britain's Hulton Press (Picture Post) ; and Maximilien Philonenko, 33, of the French Press Agency...
...home, Vicar Morris asked himself why comic-book techniques could not be used "to spread decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders for 1,986,000 copies...
Dartmouth: r.e., Johnson (Young); r.t., Bennett (Mogel); r.g., Cameron (Cole, Hinman); c., Ray Johnson; l.g., Gribbon (Hulton, Wallemus); l.t., Otis (Long, Kollecky); l.e., Merill (Montee, Hopewood); q.b., Lefebore (Handrahan, Lowder); r.h.b., Geniawicz (April, Roper); l.h.b., Conti (Keenan, Curtis); f.b., Whitaker...
There were other accidents. Seaman Pengelly, another member of the Britannia's crew, jumped smartly into a dinghy, slipped, sprained his back, was carried into East Cowes hospital. Early that morning a motor boat belonging to Lady Hulton caught fire. Lady Hulton, Vice Admiral Francis Herbert Mitchell and a mechanic jumped for their lives, all badly burned. They were fished from the water by the crew of the Conqueror, steam yacht of the U. S.-born department storekeeper H. Gordon Selfridge...