Word: collier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undismayed, Booster Smith announced plans for a communications empire that would include newspapers, a weekly newsmagazine, a TV and radio chain, make Crowell-Collier "the biggest, richest and most influential publishing house in America." Last month, after announcing that Crowell-Collier was acquiring seven TV and radio stations, Smith was unable to raise the cash...
...debentures into 600,000 shares of common stock, although actual control (400,000 shares) was in the hands of Manhattan's Publication Corp., whose subsidiary publishes This Week magazine. Last week Lannan's group and Publication Corp. got together to save what they could of Crowell-Collier...
Gibson Girls & Cowboys. Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look) agreed to pay $1,000,-ooo for the magazine title Collier's and for Crowell-Collier's Reader's Service, a subscription company that sold Collier's and other magazines. Cowles also lent Crowell-Collier $1,000.000. In addition, Cowles agreed to assume responsibility for $11 million worth of unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...Collier's, which built its reputation as a fighting journal, it was a tame end. Founded by an immigrant Bible salesman named Peter Fenelon Collier in 1888 (original title: Once A Week), Collier's sent Correspondent Richard Harding Davis to cover the Russo-Japanese War at $1,000 a week, uncovered phony medicines and phony politicians, fought for income taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy...
...that was definitely left of Crowell-Collier was a record-club division, Los Angeles Radio Station KFWB, a leasehold on the Crowell-Collier Building (worth up to $800,000), and P. F. Collier & Son Corp., the book-publishing subsidiary, which, said Lannan, a director of Manhattan publisher Henry Holt...