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...years the vision of good pay, independence, no office hours, etc., has attracted thousands of writers and would-be writers to freelancing. Last week, in one day, Satevepost alone received close to 300 manuscripts "over the transom," i.e., unsolicited. Self-help magazines-Writer's Digest, Author and Journalist, etc.-bolster the dream with enticing ads: "No More Rejection Slips," or "Enjoy Fame and Fortune as a Writer." Reality v. Dream. Actually, the reality is much less enticing than the dream. Of the thousands who have tried free-lancing magazine articles, only about 70 or 80 in the U.S. earn...
...magazines is a rare breed. "Since the decline of the oldtime prospector," says Morton Sontheimer, past president of the 91-member Society of Magazine Writers, "few people have worked with less companionship, few have had to rely more on their own resources." For the top writers magazines compete fiercely. Satevepost pays a new writer $750 for his first piece, then jumps in steps of $250 to as high as $2,500, or even $3,000. Collier's averages $1,500 for an article, the Reader's Digest $2,000, but both magazines go higher. Editors also woo writers...
...Reporter John Bartlow Martin, 39, who lives in Chicago, started writing at i/ to 2? a word for pulp crime and detective magazines, graduated to Harper's, which averages $250 to $350 a piece, and finally also began selling to Satevepost and other slick magazines. Says he: "I like every thing about freelancing, with the exception of the lack of security. Sometimes it's four to six months between checks, and that creates problems for my grocer and everybody else." One writer who no longer worries about the grocery bills is Frank J. Taylor, 60, dean...
Last week, again in Satevepost, Skipper Eugene P. Wilkinson of the atomic submarine Nautilus had an article about the sub's first tests containing material that had not been printed before. But what finally brought on the Pentagon's new "gag rule" was Admiral Carney's "background remarks" to a group of Washington correspondents in which he discussed Chinese Communist intentions toward Matsu and Quemoy (TIME, April...
...Fighting Lady (MGM) has moments as fiery and explosive as a bomb rack loaded with napalm. Put together from two Satevepost articles (by James Michener and Commander Harry Burns), the film takes a documentary look at a carrier-based jet squadron engaged in daily and seemingly profitless strafings of a North Korean railway junction. But when it struggles with its own pet moral problem ("No man is an island," etc.), the pace rapidly falls off from jet propulsion to a soporific amble...