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...stunt for the new strip, the newspaper ran a voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest...
...converting the outfit from pulps to slicks. In two years he built Mademoiselle to 300,000 circulation, later added the other women's magazines. Today the only traces of a man's world around Street & Smith are Astounding Science Fiction and two slicks, Air Trails Pictorial and Pic Sports Quarterly. Grammer says they are thriving. But in case they should ever weaken, S. & S. would be, as usual, ready with its six-shooter...
...halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican who took Europe in his stride and came home to en rich his country with great art that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity, assembled for a retro spective show opening...
...Street & Smith, which had folded Pic to give its press time and paper to Mademoiselle's Living (TIME, Oct. 11), decided to stop Living for a while. The slick-paper, homemaking magazine, an offshoot of Mademoiselle, hit a top circulation of 275,000. But S. & S. thought it was too costly to produce, not practical enough in its approach. In the fall, the editors plan to try Living again...
...program is presented each Sunday evening at 7:15 throughout the academic year as a public service of WHDH in cooperation with the United Nations Council of Harvard. Rated as "tops" by Pic Magazine, it was originated by Schwebel, and is written each Sunday afternoon by Schwebel and Wright...