Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five...
...Directions. Said Street & Smith President Gerald H. Smith: "They weren't making any money. We just weren't interested in them any longer." Neither was the public. From a wartime high of 4,250,000, the circulation of the two groups had plummeted to 700,000 a month. Changing times and tastes were to blame, said S. & S.; radio, television and the newsstand competition of the 25? reprint books had shrunk the market...
That explanation might do for the pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...
Those acting in the lusty Plautus comedy will be James R. Druwnright '51, Albert I. Borowitz '51, Maurice R. Snowden instructor in Classics, George I. Mulhern '51, John E. Rexine '51, Paul T. Broneer '51, Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, David L. Smith '51, Joseph B. Dellet '51, Dorothea Reynolds, Radcliffe '51, Ann Sweeny, Radcliffe '50, Marilyn Bradley, Radcliffe '51, and Andreas Lowenfield...
Klemens W. von Klemperer, Teaching Fellow and tutor in History and Literature, has been appointed instructor in History at Smith College, Herbert J. Davis, president of the college, announced yesterday...