Word: leftishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside the publishing business are aware of the connection, the Straight family,*which publishes the politically conscious New Republic (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), also publishes the politically unconscious Antiques. An illustrated monthly,. Antiques is the biggest and most successful magazine in its field. In the depression years, when the leftish New-Republic prospered, the newly purchased Antiques lost money. Now Antiques makes money and the New Republic loses it. From a circulation high point of 96,441 in 1948 under Editor Henry Wallace, the N.R. has slumped to 37,000; the current issue carries only three ads and a column...
...concentration was interrupted when his wife left him, divorced him and married his old crony from Harvard days, Joseph Barnes, who later became Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, then editor of the leftish, ill-starred New York Star. But the interruption was only momentary. Field poured money into Red activities, put on $100-a-plate dinners for C.P. causes, slavishly followed the party line-and married wealthy Edith Chamberlain Hunter of California, who was once a diligent worker in Red vineyards, but who describes herself vigorously as not a Communist...