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...history of Popular Magazine is the story of Editor Charles Agnew MacLean's life. Editor MacLean was born in Ireland in 1880. Aged five, he was taken to the U.S. His father was a newspaperman who scraped enough money together for Son Charles to go to college. Charles demurred, made his parents move into a better house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Fired from the New York Sun, fired from the Times, in 1903 Charles Agnew MacLean went to work for Street & Smith. Year after he was put in charge of Smith's, Ainslie's and the newly...
...number of famed and near-famed writers whom Editor MacLean raised from oblivion is astonishing. He lifted the late H.C. Witwer from a $30-a-week copy-reader's job on the Sun. He helped Albert Payson Terhune with his first work. He ''discovered" Zane Grey, Louis Joseph Vance, Charles E. Van Loan. Of his output he said: "Much of it is not literature. Little of it is great literature. It comes so straight and fresh from the loom of life that it may well be imperfect in spots and lacking that finish which a more meticulous...
...Editor MacLean knew a good glass of wine, a good cigar, but spent most of his money for Scotch whiskey. It killed him in 1928. Popular was never the same afterward...
...Rich (RKO). Small-town boarding houses are still a pre-eminent locale for a certain kind of unpretentious comedy, usually built around the lady who runs the boarding house, her loafer husband, her pretty daughter, the star and other boarders. In Laugh and Get Rich, written by Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor's device?to provide...
Although a Liberal, Sir Donald MacLean warmly championed the Labor Government, declared that Russia's exportable surplus of wheat is negligible in comparison with that of Canada, Australia, the Argentine...