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...five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...month Reader's Digest and Look raised their newsstand price from 350 to 500. TIME increased from 40? to 50?. Last year the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review jumped from 25? to 35?. Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report rose from 35? to 40?, Cosmopolitan and Redbook from 35? to 50?. Holiday spurted from 60? to 75?, Town & Country from...
Forgetting Tiny Tim. In the view of the year-end magazines, few human activities are so fraught with peril as gift giving. In Redbook, Anthropologist Margaret Mead cautioned parents not to give their children presents that will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children...
Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Radcliffe College Council--the college's highest governing body--indicated to Radcliffe Government Association executives yesterday that it probably would not block a student attempt to change the Redbook rule prohibiting parietals after...