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...libel suit for $250,000 against Burton Rascoe, author, and Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers of the book, Before I Forget. Mr. Rascoe, who was writing for the Tribune when Mr. Annenberg was there, remembered in his book a lot of things that had happened to delivery trucks and newsstand dealers, drew the conclusion: "This was the beginning of gangsterism and racketeering in Chicago." Mr. Annenberg declared in his complaint: "Plaintiff is and always has been a forthright, honest and faithful citizen . . . always has been engaged in lawful and honorable businesses...
Scribner's, enlarged, redesigned and editorially revamped last October to reach a wider field, has increased its newsstand sales from 6,280 to 69,000 copies per month. Out for larger editorial bear, young Harlan Logan announced in Printers' Ink last week a stunt familiar to trade publications but radical for such a staid old publishing house as Charles Scribner's Sons. Beginning in June, Scribner's will deliver gratis for three months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months...
...moon when last month a dignified, well-printed and well-written new business weekly called The Financial Observer appeared in Manhattan's downtown section (TIME, Feb. 15). At $10 a year, The Financial Observer booked 1,000 subscribers, among them J. P. Morgan. Newsstand sales went to 9,000 a week. Backer of the Observer was one John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath was a ; big capitalist from Canada. Actually this compelling little personage with a soft voice and wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville...
Today I got from my local newsstand the Jan. 4 issue of TIME, on the front cover of which appears the picture of "Woman of the Year," Mrs. Wallis Simpson. I wish to be among the first to congratulate you on your selection of this picture, for the first issue of TIME...
...list of pocket-sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...