Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began paying them good prices. Last fall he sent Richard (Guadalcanal Diary) Tregaskis off to write a round-the-world diary (at $2,000 an entry, plus expenses) for True. "For stories we really want," says...
...over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes. Even South Africa's Bobby Locke, regarded as today's best putter, moaned over them, and went astray. Ben Hogan blew up on the third round. But "tournament soft" Claude Harmon played...
Read and R. P. Blackmur; a short story of the war by Alex Comfort that was a good grenade throw above most slick-magazine fiction. The editors regard "evaluating currently dominant literary reputations" as part of their charter. Accordingly, Vol.1, No.1 gave the back of its hand to the "dreary wastes" of homosexuality in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Some other little magazines, just popped up or popping...
...Masses & Mainstream, reincarnating the late New Masses (TIME, Jan. 12) and the Communist literary quarterly Mainstream, was blue-serge Marxist in semi-slick dress. Its first monthly issue (15,000 copies) was adorned with a Picasso cover...
Relentless (Columbia). Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman and Barton MacLane in a Technicolored scrimmage for gold. Their work and an unusually good production give this slick western an illusion of quality it doesn't really have...