Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Harriet Kurd McClure, 73, of Waterbury, Conn., wife of Samuel Sidney McClure, founder-publisher of McClure's Magazine; at Waterbury. She was the first woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa (Knox College...
Last week, McClure Newspaper Syndicate put out a "new" feature. At the head are the words "Strange as It Seems-by John Hix." Below were cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend, "If you doubt this, write for proof to the author...
Henry Ford added another generality to his large list.† Said he, in an interview in the January McClure's: "This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times, and very ancient people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. . . . I am sure they had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Historians and geologists, with whom Mr. Ford has not always agreed, did not agree with him in this case...
...sold two magazines, Smart Set and McClure's, to James R. Quirk...
...Without comment, William Randolph Hearst sold his McClure's and Smart Set to James R. Quirk, publisher of Photoplay Magazine and Opportunity...