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...what extent do Negroes read white magazines? The booklet prints statistics gathered in 1929-1930 from dark families in Atlanta, Richmond, Nashville, Birmingham. Highest score was Literary Digest's 14% of 275 "business & professional" families. McCall's was runner-up with 9%; Ladies' Home Journal third, 7%. Among 702 "common and semiskilled labor" families, True Story topped the list with 4.8%. Among magazines for which only one subscriber was found: TIME, Vogue, Nation, College Humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dark Market | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar's guards faces the issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine he now edits a column of sermons-of-the-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Colyumist | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...constituents of Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, would like you to publish a sketch of the career and achievements of the Honorable Jim. W. A. Bugher J. A. McCall G. H. Dove Edith Dove W. H. Ritter G. E. Osmon Frank Hastings Plainville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Until President Warner took charge, McCall's was distinctly a smalltown magazine. In 1919 it gave its last rosebush subscription premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Queen, New Dress | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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