Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, Gore, and Standish Halls will continue to operate as Freshman dormitories and not as Houses, Dean Leighton stated. With Freshman migrations being discouraged, Smith Hall will remain completely filled, as will every entry in Standish except one. Regardless of, any caprices of the Admissions Committee, a comfortable margin for error in entrance estimates exists in Gore, where 60 per cent of the rooms are vacant this summer...
Almost no qualifications were submitted by regular members of the staff, who considered the committeee's action unjustified and unlawful. But other students complied with the committee's request, with the result that Stanley Smith, V-12, a star football tackle of Coach Lou Little's forward wall, was named editor-in-chief. Smith had no status or experience on the staff; he had never been a candidate for the paper...
...theme proved popular, Street & Smith rode it to death. There were 400 volumes about Buffalo Bill, 1,000 about Frank Merriwell. Grammer wishes he knew how many different books and magazines S. & S. has put out. Some old hands estimate it as over 10,000 titles...
Along with the pulp books, Street & Smith built pulp magazines (Ainslee's, Top Notch, etc.), which kept going when the penny-dreadful fad passed. Some, like Western Story, still have a cozy 400,000 circulation. They have followed every change in public taste from the Western plains to the sea, to the air, to cops & robbers, and back to cowboys. At the crest, when it sold 95 million magazines and pulps a year, S. & S. had a stable of such writers as Upton Sinclair (who wrote under the name of Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.), Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton...
...began to end just about the time Grammer moved in. The pulps (only 7 are left) are almost a sideline now. The largest slice of Street & Smith's profits comes from Mademoiselle (Milly around the office), 354-page, ad-packed junior Vogue (circ. 433.830). Charm, designed for business girls ("Men Crave Resistance"), is another success...