Word: pics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Both had felt differently about the lynched Mussolini. The Times scooped the world with a front-page picture of the Duce and his mistress, taken before their bodies were strung up. But there were then many who doubted whether Mussolini was really dead; nobody needed pic torial evidence of the end of Nürnberg's eleven...
...hottest horse trainer in the U.S. is sawed-off, 30-year-old Stan Lipiec (rhymes with see-pic). He goes in for strictly ordinary nags that run in strictly ordinary races-and run so well that last year they won him a whopping...
Readers Wanted. The new Pic is a slicker two-bit, Esquire-like 120-page monthly aimed directly at the homebound G.I. Its thesis is that soldiers who yearned over pin-up girls in foxholes and wolf-howled in Paris will come home more sober and serious. To win them, Pic plans career pieces ("How G.I.s Can Become Farmers"), designs for living ("First Civvies in Five Years") and sidebar ticklers ("Widows Are Dangerous...
...Pic's elaborate face-lifting is typical of the way oldtime Street & Smith keeps itself young. In fact, the old Street & Smith has been hardly recognizable since 1938, when white-haired, supercharged Allen L. Grammer moved in as president. He had spent more than 20 years as a kind of efficiency expert for Curtis Publishing Co., and made a small fortune inventing new printing processes. He found Street & Smith possessors of a building full of dusty rolltop desks, and coasting on its dusty laurels. He moved the offices into a skyscraper, and fixed up the foyer like a cocktail...
With these, Publisher Grammer has emerged as something of a teenagers' Condá Nast. Pic's new format may do as much for him in the young men's field...