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Publishers are also aware that the Post, Collier's and Liberty have long been jockeying for preferred time-position on the newsstands. On the theory that a magazine becomes a backnumber after the date printed on its cover, Liberty and Collier's are dated more than a week later than their appearance. The Post hitherto depended on the big weekend trade to absorb its newsstand stock, sometimes sent boys about on Monday to pick up remaining copies of the current issue and peddle them as best they could. By moving ahead to Tuesday, the Post presents itself with two more...
...undertaking Ballyhoo, Publisher Delacorte declared he was "doing something against his own best judgment for the first time"; but it appealed to him as a sporting proposition. A newsstand sale of 100,000 copies per issue would make money, he believed...
...than 3,000,000.) In 1929 he prophesied: "We estimate that in 1935 Liberty will have the largest magazine circulation in the world." He even showed a graph of the future, in which Liberty topped Satevepost jauntily (TIME, July 1, 1929). Last week Liberty's circulation, always 99% newsstand, was claimed to have reached over...
...only to quote some of the things which this girl-or her friends- might have bought to read at any newsstand...
...slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them. Leader of the first ring was President Harry Izzicson of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club. Shrewd Harry Izzicson dealt in peddlers' licenses, naturalization papers, newsstand permits, hospital jobs; but his most thriving racket was promising jobs to young female applicants for teachers' positions. The Izzicson method: a friend employed by the Board of Education "could switch a name from the waiting list [some 4,000] to the eligible list, without the formality of an examination...