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...bought too much bottom-drawer stuff, because it could not afford the prices other magazines paid for top-drawer pieces. The magazine had improved notably after Editor Richard E. Lauterbach, former LIFE staffer, took over seven months ago-but not enough to withstand the spring newsstand slump. It was running only a little above its advertising guarantee...
...always a little skeptical of the new faces that keep turning up on the newsstand from month to month but one of our Massachusetts Avenue operators happened upon an item just the other day that deserves to be noised about. The issue in question runs to 52 pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This...
...Gurion, who had been visiting Jewish militiamen during Passover, cabled his representatives at U.N. to accept a truce for Jerusalem's Old City. But most of the U.N. debate was still concerned with procedural issues. Between meetings, the delegates of the 58 nations sent their assistants to the newsstand in the U.N. cafeteria to buy the latest editions of the newspapers, to find out what else had happened in Palestine...
...know, of course, that the sale of TIME is forbidden now in Prague. So I was amazed to see on a newsstand in front of the offices of Rudé Právo a copy of TIME displayed, not prominently, but easily seen. It was the issue of December 29 with a picture of the Virgin and Child on the cover. When I asked the old woman in charge of the stand what sort of magazine it was, she winked at me and said it was an 'art' magazine. I asked if I might...
There are currently only eight "absolutely safe" cover girls: Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, June Haver and Esther Williams. A male star on the cover-some editors except Alan Ladd-can reduce newsstand sales (about 95% of the total) by as much...