Word: oursler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOSHUA TODD-Fulton Oursler-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Bulky, somewhat raffish story of a young man against whom fate loaded the dice...
Sponsors of the meeting are Charles R. Cherington '35, John L. Davidson, Jr. '37., John H. Haring '36, Dayton W. Hull '35, Grinnell Jones, Jr. '36, Alonzo B. Knight '36, Thomas H. Quinn '36, and William C. Oursler...
...TIME, Sept. 21, you give practically all the credit for the improvement in Physical Culture to Mr. Oursler. I do not think you are either right or fair in that. The marvelous change in the magazine during Mr. Burton's one-year editorship speaks for itself. And as editor of McCall's some years ago, he made just as great an improvement in McCall's. You cannot credit Mr. Oursler with that, can you? Please, TIME, "Honor to whom honor...
...Editor Harry Payne Burton goes Oct. 1 to succeed outgoing Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan. (Also it revives a rumor that Cosmopolitan may likewise reduce its price from 25 cents to 10 cents.) But the Physical Culture which was executed by Editor Burton had been conceived by Di rector Oursler. Highbrowed, spectacled. Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays...
...turn of this year Macfadden's Editorial Director Charles Fulton Oursler had worked astonishing changes in the magazine. The large sums usually spent on promotion and advertising were appropriated to buy good fiction, good illustrations, color printing. While the circulation of other magazines fell off during spring and summer, Physical Culture held its own (290,000). With the appearance last fortnight of the October issue, the price was slashed from 25? to 10?. The newsstand sale doubled...