Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewife's door in Alexandria, La. one day in 1949 stepped Magazine Salesman Jack H. Breard to sell combination subscriptions to several magazines (Saturday Evening Post, Newsweek and Ladies Home Journal). But Breard was really trying to get arrested, to test a city ordinance forbidding door-to-door visits without prior permission of householders. Obligingly, Alexandria's police arrested Salesman Breard, and he was ordered to pay a $25 fine or go to jail for 30 days...
...contrast to the Kefauver hearings, when TIME was the only sponsor, eight advertisers (LIFE, Longines-Wittnauer, Motorola, United Fruit, American Oil Co., Collier's, Newsweek, United Air Lines) took over segments of the MacArthur processional on TV. They got their money's worth: the MacArthur show was TV's biggest & best job to date...
...graduate work at Columbia University, he began writing book reviews for Outlook and other magazines. After a turn on the Paris Times, he went to Reader's Digest for three years, took time off to edit a weekly newspaper, and spent most of the next three years editing Newsweek...
Last week Newsweek sold its new pocket-sized picture magazine People Today to Hillman Periodicals, Inc., publishers of Pageant and a string of moneymaking pulps, for "more than...
People's eight months at Newsweek had begun in argument: Malcolm Muir thought the little magazine looked like a moneymaker and should be pushed, but Board Chairman Vincent Astor disliked its low-grade formula. When People tried slicing the cheesecake thinner, circulation dropped and Astor yielded. Then an impending paper shortage loomed, and everybody agreed People should...