Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streets. Eddie didn't die. After removing some of the clotted blood from his lung, the doctors said he would play ball again. He sat up in bed and tolerantly described Ruth as a "Baseball Annie," one of an army of hero-worshiping teen-age girls who follow players around. He was kind of puzzled, though: "I don't know what got into that silly honey. Why pick on a nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this...
Last night's Observatory hold-up, in which James H. Finkelstein '51 was robbed of $26 and a wristwatch valued at $50 while his date, Anne Gans '50 was unharmed, followed by 25 minutes a Garden Street robbery, also by three teen-agers, in which MIT student Malcolm Kurth had $4, a cigarette case, and two pens stolen from...
...from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...
...Teen-age Editors. The magazine gives them low-priced fashions, fiction, sensible articles such as "how to get along with parents" and frank discussions of teen-age problems which other magazines shy away from. Once a year, the teen-agers take over the magazine and supply all the writing and illustrations for one issue...
...Teen-age Tester. Attractive new publisher Thompson has had to learn plenty of other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue...