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...distributed, a single block of 32% is held by Mrs. Mary Zimbalist, 85, widow of the late, longtime Journal editor, Edward Bok, and now married to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Another block of some 17% is held by the estate of Mrs. Zimbalist's father, the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the former Maine dry-goods clerk who founded the Curtis publishing empire in 1883. (Mrs. Zimbalist is one of seven trustees of the estate.) Even without the stock in the estate, Mrs. Zimbalist's own holding-1,160,505 shares of common stock, 131,000 of preferred-represents...
...publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with a weekly called the Tribune and Farmer, Curtis, with some help from his wife, moved in 1883 into the neglected field of women's publications with the Ladies' Home Journal...
Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...
...harsh truism: U.S. magazine publishers have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden, he never discovered what, besides pouring in money...
...Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge of the publishing giant he created almost singlehanded...