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...Sales Manager." With Walter Dean (or Deane, he doesn't care which) Fuller in Mr. Lorimer's old chair as Curtis president, Vice President Fred Albert Healy rose to report (without giving money figures) on net advertising revenue-for the Post, 1.6% over 1936. "It's nothing to crow about," said homely Mr. Healy who, like most Curtis executives has not lost his Midwestern inflection, "but I can't say we feel bad, either...
Other Curtis directors, reviewing lively Mr. Healy's activities of the year as "sales manager" (his own title) of the Post, thought he might be permitted at least a small crow. Older & sportier than the run of undergraduates, Fred Healy had a legendary good time at the University of Illinois. When he left there in 1914 he sold automobile accessories for a while, in 1917 became a Country Gentleman ad solicitor out of the Chicago office. He was the first to suggest that Curtis set up headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head...
...like After Dark, which he recently sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $25,000. He and his brother retain a small holding of Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors...
Solid backlogs of the editorial staff are three invaluable Lorimer legacies. Oldest in point of service is the A. W. Neall whose name for years has held the No. 2 place in the Post's masthead. Few readers know that she is a woman. Adelaide Neall, fresh out of Bryn Mawr, got into the organization by picking Graeme up when he fell off his pony at a Lorimer garden party in 1909. She handles the magazine's poetry, contacts, encourages, and makes story suggestions to most of the Post's women writers, a few men like...
Unwritten Recipe. Three Post editors spend one day each week in Manhattan interviewing writers, searching among book publishers' galleys and agents' piles of manuscripts for Post material. The rest of the week, from 9 to 5:15, all eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from...