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...almost as if the cartoonists had been waiting for an excuse to sight in once more on a familiar target. No sooner did Charles de Gaulle announce his decision to recognize Red China than the pen-and-ink brigade moved to the attack. The long, lugubrious face, with its dark, pouched eyes glowering past the promontory of a nose, was riddled with caricature. A buzzing gadfly, a silly rake wooing an Oriental tart, a kook cutting loose a dangerous dragon-De Gaulle was peppered from all sides...
...lost $8,400,000 between 1955 and 1962. Then the strike just about swamped it in red ink. In nine months last year, the Mirror dropped $2,500,000, and stopped publishing in October...
...Anderson, whose name was really something else. Geogiev was supposed to have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according to the current city directory, do not exist. The CIA, he said, supplied him with all of the spy's normal accouterments: treated paper, invisible ink, a miniature tape recorder and microphone designed as a tie clasp, code books and a tiny shortwave radio...
...world of magazine publishing is haunted by a handful of entrepreneurs who hold that the ingredients of success consist almost entirely of paper and ink. They are not particularly interested in mail subscribers or advertisers, although they accept such business as comes in unsolicited. Nor are they concerned much with the quality of their editorial product, relying on the probability that there are newsstand suckers who will buy anything. No one has applied this publishing theory with more personal satisfaction than a onetime freelance writer named Hy Steirman...
...losing big money. Steirman's revival bears only superficial resemblance to the earlier magazine. Even the title may not be his: Esquire sold it to Reader's Digest, which is now contesting in court Steirman's right to use it. But Paper-and-Ink Publisher Hy Steirman is convinced that his reincarnated Coronet will make money-if he can keep the name...