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After a life of 48 years, during which it achieved a unique place in U. S. journalism, the Literary Digest last week was taken over by TIME, thus ceasing to exist as a separate publication. First issue of the Literary Digest appeared on March 1, 1890. Its publishers, Isaac Kauffman Funk & Adam Willis Wagnalls, classmates at Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio) and ordained Lutheran ministers, conceived the magazine as "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world.'' In 1905 this formula was extended to include newspaper comment on the news...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
...Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls founded a weekly magazine called Literary Digest. In 1891 Dr. Albert Shaw founded a monthly magazine called Review of Reviews. Last week there was a wedding of the products of these venerable oldsters when Literary Digest was purchased by Review of Reviews for a reported...
Cedric Seager and John Bruce Heath, promoters of the Financial Observer, had in mind neither of the paper's models when they agitated it last year. Briton and American, they had in mind the revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...
Purpose of the magazine is to give no market tips, just information which a businessman or investor might be glad to mull over or file away. Said Editor Kauffman: "It has nothing to sell except itself...