Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall's were dickering for Companion subscriptions; Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) was expected to enter the negotiations this week. Crowell-Collier also planned to sell its Springfield, Ohio printing plant (estimated worth...
...Collier's, which built its reputation as a fighting journal, it was a tame end. Founded by an immigrant Bible salesman named Peter Fenelon Collier in 1888 (original title: Once A Week), Collier's sent Correspondent Richard Harding Davis to cover the Russo-Japanese War at $1,000 a week, uncovered phony medicines and phony politicians, fought for income taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy...
...loaded with helpful hints and departments ranging from Mother's Corner to Flowers, Care and Culture. Companion also carried serials by such women writers as Edna Ferber and Willa Gather. In recent years the staid Companion had lost ground to such rivals as Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...remarkable family, headed by his wife, a gay, knowing, articulate lady who, through her radio and the books people bring her, keeps quite abreast of what's happening outside--in Montreal, New York and Cambridge. Though she has stopped writing for the Stanstead Journal, the county's weekly newspaper, she has completed a lyric poem and is blocking out in her mind a kindly and truthful book about the village, The Devil is in Us All! Considering the best-selling success of a recent, sensationalistic attempt by a young American marm, it would probably enjoy acclaim. When...
Martyrdom of Fire. In 1858 John Long, a young schoolteacher who was later to be a three-time governor of Massachusetts, wrote in his journal: "I judge that Longfellow has not suffered enough to be a great poet." Less than three years later, if he remembered it, the entry must have made him uneasy. On July 9, 1861 Fanny was sealing a package that contained a lock of one of her children's hair. Her sleeve caught fire, and in a moment her light summer dress became a sheath of flame. Trying to save her, Longfellow was himself seriously...