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...Retrousse" was a word she had learned from Arch, her brother, who was away at Harvard. He was always spoken as as "being away at Harvard." As if he were dead, or something. Philip Cyprus Gunion in the Satevepost...
...have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden, he never discovered what, besides pouring in money, makes a great newspaper tick...
...Knox also explained that he did not write for profit but to "publicize and popularize the Navy." To the Naval Relief Society and to his ghost writers he had given all the proceeds from four recent magazine articles: from Satevepost, $1,000; Collier's, $1,000; Liberty, $900; American, $750; Post foreign rights...
Curtis Publishing Co. screwed its courage up this month to ask advertisers to pay for some of the bonus circulation they have been getting free: it announced the first increase in Satevepost ad rates since 1926. In the intervening 16 years circulation has gone up from 2,724,876 to 3,348,875, but the black & white page rate had stayed at $8,000. The new rate ($8,500) will be effective next July 4. Curtis also announced the first increase in 14 years for the Ladies' Home Journal. Last month the Journal announced a new peak circulation...
...fiction. The opening piece on Grover Gant (who died early in Look Homeward, Angel) is a short, beautifully disciplined work, in a style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry...