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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Things are happening in Crowell Publishing Co. Last summer the Mentor was overhauled and spruced up (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month the American Magazine bade goodbye to Editor Merle Crowell (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Finer Farmers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...feature match of the Annual Fall Tennis tournament was played Saturday when R. A. Murphy '33, seeded number four, conquered D. M. Frame '32, captain of last year's Freshman team and seeded number seven. Murphy yesterday reached the finals by overcoming A. N. Wilder 1G. In the upper bracket of class A. J. K. Peterson II, will meet W. L. Breese '31, seeded number three in the quarter finals this afternoon, while Harris Coggeshall 1L, seeded number one opposes J. L. Ware '30, number six, this afternoon in the other quarter final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MURPHY BEATS FRAME TO REACH TENNIS FINALS | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant. But gradually the show grew bigger, the animals wilder, the freaks more peculiar and the patronage more substantial. In 1907 Mr. Ringling bought control of Barnum & Bailey, became leader of the industry which he now dominates. His combined employe list totals some 6,500, and his wealth is estimated in eight figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Mentor | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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