Word: piel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scientific American (est. 1845), lately a haven for publicity handouts, dressed up to become, once more, a magazine for scientific Americans. With a new editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including...
...former LIFE science editors, Gerard Piel, 32, and Dennis Flanagan, 28, bought the magazine from Patent Lawyer Orson Munn, whose family had owned it for 101 years. For an undisclosed sum, they got the magazine's typewriters, circulation, Manhattan office space and paper. Editor Piel and Managing Editor Flanagan hope to hold the old readers, and get new ones, by effecting a change that "will be as great as the change from the old Life to the new LIFE...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...