Word: newsstand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that salesmen started soliciting ads for Esquire, President Franklin Roosevelt closed all the nation's banks. The magazine, which emphasized men's fashion, was to be distributed primarily through clothing stores, but the first issue's newsstand copies sold so quickly that the staff frenziedly retrieved what they could from the haberdashers. Three years later, Esquire had a profitable circulation of 440,000 and was publishing works that are still remembered, including Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up. Other magazines that competed for big-name writers...
...subscribers and newsstand buyers know, we are marking TIME'S 60th birthday with a just published Special Anniversary Issue. The milestone is also being celebrated on television, with a 72-minute documentary called The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History. The show, which debuted last week on Home Box Office, the nation's leading pay cable TV service and a subsidiary of Time Inc., will air several times in October and November. It looks at TIME'S reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades...
...Hadden, were about to close the third issue of their new magazine, TIME. It must have been difficult to concentrate on the job at hand because the first returns trickling in from Vol. 1 No. 1 were not all that promising. About 2,500 of the first 5,000 newsstand copies, priced at 15?, had gone unsold. One of the other problems was that Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager, who was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development of Time Inc., had hired some of Hadden's debutante friends...
...standards that applies to everybody in the press. Nor can there be. When it comes to newspapers and televised network news, critics demand that they be evenhanded and that all opinion be carefully labeled. But there exists another vast part of the press, highly visible at any newsstand, where being one-sided ("specialized" is the preferred word for it) is the very reason for being. These journals set their own standards, which their subscribers happily submit to; and fairness is not necessarily one of the rules...
Kissinger, with his many-layered mind, has always had a many-layered reputation. Once he couldn't go near a campus without hearing "War criminal!" He hasn't been forgiven by many yet, and he can't pass an airport newsstand these days without seeing a copy of the Atlantic, with an article accusing him of past perfidy in Chile. But he has become rich: Wall Street pays handsomely for his advice; editors want his words; his speeches command top prices; his reputation is secure as the dominant American strategist in foreign affairs for two decades...