Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matthew J. Culligan, the company has been looking everywhere for a new boss. The directors hired Boyden Associates, a management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board of directors announced that its search had ended at last. The man had been found right at home...
Even as the board acted, Edward Miller and Newton Minow made announcements of their own. Miller said he was leaving McCall's to become president of Alfred Politz Research, Inc., a market-research firm that already counts Curtis among its clients. Minow told newsmen that he was taking a temporary leave of absence from his duties as executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica to work on Curtis problems as a "special counsel...
...Curtis magazines have met with little success. On four of them-the Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack & Jill-a revolving-door policy for editors has had little more effect than to unsettle the incumbents. The Journal, for example, which in 1961 lost its crown to McCall's as the leading woman's magazine, has yet to recover...
With an interviewer from Baldwin-Nelson coming, they decide to act so square that they could pass for cubes. Out goes the cello; in comes a dust-laden TV set. Copies of the Reader's Digest and McCall's are scattered about. "Where'd you get these?" asks Pilgrim in wonderment. "I subscribe to the incinerator," comes the answer...
...nouveau is the interior at Maxim's, the typography of McCall's, the Ziegfeld Theater, the shopping bags of London's Elliott shoe company, the gaudy Metro exit at Paris' Place de la Bastille, the Postal Savings Bank building in Vienna, the curly white painted Italian furniture, Tiffany lamps, Gallé vases, books with spiraling Aubrey Beardsley designs, and twisted, forged-iron banisters now flooding art shops and galleries...