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Cannibalism is a rare but not unknown practice in the magazine business. Last week Street & Smith got ready to gobble its eleven-year-old Pic.* Once a cheap pictorial stuffed with cheesecake, Pic had been restyled in 1945 as a serious magazine for young men. It was not making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time...
Living, a child of Mademoiselle, is only four issues old. But it is a newsstand sellout at 220,000 copies, and as a "magazine for smart young homemakers," was treading on Pic's toes. The publishers will step up the print order and turn Living into a bimonthly in February. quote to read: "He's trying to criminally assault me! Help...
Current leaders in the competition are Gazio, Air-Pic, Opalook, I.C. and Kaladio. The top contender-Dekko-was borrowed from cockney slang. In the vernacular, dekko† means look (e.g., "Let's have a dekko at it") True to the leisurely traditions of many British contests, the Daily Express isn't sure just when it will announce the winner-maybe this week; maybe later...
What is so damned comical about one of Jean Simmons' admirers asking her for a pic ture of her feet? . . . Du Maurier in his classic Trilby devoted page after page to descriptions of Trilby's beautiful feet. In the novels of such romantics as Théophile Gautier, Restif de la Bretonne, Pierre Louÿs, Sacher-Masoch and Emile Zola, the heroine's feet are always lovely, frequently bare, and often kissed by the hero...
...PIC 55. 69. ARTS TURE...