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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the men who are putting the Hearst publishing empire in order got around to Mr. Hearst's magazines. Quietly knocked on the head was 39-year-old Pictorial Review, which only a year and a half ago boasted a circulation of more than 3,000,000, bigger than any other women's monthly...
Whatever Pictorial was while alive, its demise will be the biggest in U. S. magazine history. It owes subscribers in unfulfilled subscriptions a sum estimated at over $1,000,000. Mr. Hearst's trustees are under no obligation to saddle any of it on his profitable Good Housekeeping, may seek to peddle it around to other women's monthlies like Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,044,000), Ladies' Home Journal (3,047,000), McCall...
...John Ickes, 65, elder brother to Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes, was reinstated in his Chicago municipal clerkship from which he had been ousted for "political reasons" seven years earlier. In short order Mr. Ickes sued the city for $51,462 back salary and interest. The case was declared a mistrial. Last week, with the approval of both Mr. Ickes and city officials, an appropriation of $15,000 was written into the 1939 city budget, to settle with Mr. Ickes...
...Macy's with Kenneth Collins went his faithful assistant. William H. Howard, whose previous occupation was teaching English at Wabash College, while Mr. Collins had taught English at Idaho University. Ex-Teachers Collins and Howard planned to start their own advertising agency, but went to Gimbel's department store instead, Mr. Collins as assistant to President Bernard F. Gimbel, Mr. Howard as assistant to Mr. Collins...
During the past six years, bustling Kenneth Collins has continued to get his name and picture in the papers, discussing anything from business conditions (which he usually approved) to women's fashions (which he didn't). Three years ago Mr. Howard left Gimbel's to direct advertising for Montgomery Ward, and three weeks ago Mr. Collins also left Gimbel...