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...stroke, CBS added a dozen established moneymakers with a combined circulation of an estimated 4.7 million to its publishing operation. The company already owned eleven titles, including the Sunday newspaper supplement Family Weekly (circ. 13 million), Woman's Day (circ. 6.9 million), Field & Stream (circ. 2 million) and Mechanix Illustrated (circ. 1.6 million). Ziff called CBS "a great new home" for his magazines. A delighted CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, who helped engineer the deal, described it as "a rare opportunity to acquire a very successful, well-managed business...
DIED. Roger K. Fawcett, 69, president of Fawcett Publications; of cancer; in New York City. The Minnesota-born Fawcett succeeded his father as chief executive officer of the firm, which publishes magazines (Woman's Day, Mechanix Illustrated), paperbacks with the Crest, Gold Medal and Popular Library imprints and Charles Schulz Peanuts books. Fawcett sold the family-owned company to CBS in 1977 for $50 million...
...work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted her when she was elected as the first female corresponding member of the French Academy of Science in 1962. ∙ Died. Thomas McCahill, 68, popular automobile writer; of a heart attack; in Ormond Beach, Fla. In 1946 McCahill began basing his Mechanix Illustrated critiques of new models on his own road tests. Spiced with tart "McCahillisms" (he once compared a Jaguar's heating system to "an old lady breathing on your leg"), "Uncle Tom's" column had a wide following for almost three decades. ∙ Died. Bob Wills, 70, "Western Swing...
...book, and actually defined love (very movingly, I might add) as "the mutually satisfying sharing of each other's experience and the experience of each other." Now I guess they'll stop thinking of you as some sort of cold, potty Englishman dishing out new versions of Mechanix Illustrated for the U.S. suburbs. After all, The Joy of Sex has sold 3 million copies, and More Joy sold 150,000 copies even before its official publication date. Can so many people be wrong...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...