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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to Bernarr Macfadden (who "retired" from Macfadden Publications last year) the best-known Macfadden name is Charles Fulton Oursler, high-priced editor of Liberty. Last week Editor Oursler too was out. Liberty's new editor is 58-year-old Sheppard Butler, who quit the same job when Macfadden bought Liberty from Cousins Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick in 1931. Editor Oursler, busy with a novel and a play, kept mum about the reasons for his departure and his 10,000 shares of Macfadden stock (market price: $1.25 per share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oursler Out | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Onetime law clerk, piano salesman, magician and Baltimore reporter, Editor Oursler went to work for Macfadden in 1921, two weeks later was left in charge while Macfadden took a vacation. Thereafter Editor Oursler sat permanently on Macfadden's right. He shuffled staffs', set up and knocked down magazines, started that ill-fated and ill-smelling Macfadden tabloid, the New York Graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oursler Out | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...TRIAL OF VINCENT DOON-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in May, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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