Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the publishers of McCall's talk about Depression they mean 1919 when "the wolf wasn't at McCall's door; it was 'way inside.'" Newsstand sales were around 20,000. Advertising for the year was only 209,000 lines. Into McCall Co. as president then came William Bishop Warner, now also chairman of American Woolen Co. One of his first acts was to lift the lid of the editorial budget. For the next twelve years McCall's zoomed. Its lineage last year was 7,718,000, sixth in rank...
While the wolf is now far from McCall's office in Manhattan's gilt-topped New York Central Building, the magazine has not been untouched by the 1930-32 slump. And President Warner has authorized the tactics which succeeded before: spending money on editorial revision. This week the result appeared in McCall's October issue...
...people are either fighting to bar the wolf from the door or struggling inside the threshold to keep his fangs from their throat. They have little time or money to spend on railroad consolidation plans...
...read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy Was a King, The Room...
Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry. Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...