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Salvage Job. Liberty has tried hard to live down an unhappy past. Its masthead each week carries a significant sentence: "No longer connected with Macfadden Publications or the Chicago Tribune." The magazine's founding fathers, Colonel Robert R. McCormick and Captain Joseph Patterson, launched it 21 years ago as a poor man's Saturday Evening Post, won readers but never did influence advertisers. Then Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden took over, cheap-jacked its contents, built up 2,700,000 circulation, but still lost money...
...wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
...Bulletin of Robert and William L. McLean Jr. was typically sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
...left an unappraised estate-listed in probate court at a value of $68,500-and $65,000 in insurance. For each of 14 employes whose Gazette service amounted to 20 years or more he specified a gift of $1,000. At week's end the Gazette's masthead was revised to read: "W. A. White, Editor, 1895-1944; Mrs. W. A. White and W. L. White, Editors and Owners...
First notice to the Sun's staff of Evans' dismissal was in the masthead: Marshall Field appeared as both publisher and editor. His chief helpers, it appeared, would be experienced, 48-year-old Clem J. Randau on the business side, and hard-boiled Frank W. Taylor on the editorial...