Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open house for all the foreign students of the University will be held this evening at the third meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Cards have been sent out to all the foreign students who were unable to attend the first two meetings of the club...
Publisher Hearst had the honor last week to announce the marriage of his Hearst's International and his Cosmopolitan magazines. Consummation of the union was set for early in the new year. The International, a feminist bride, will insist for a time on International-Cosmopolitan as the family name, but will later succumb to custom and be of one name as well as one flesh with the Cosmopolitan...
Many wondered at the conjugation of this flashy couple who are so close of kin. Persons who buy both the International and the Cosmopolitan do so primarily for the fiction and illustrations and these are almost identical in the two magazines. Asked to distinguish a difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact...
...International, still devoted to current events but with an admixture of fiction. The current events element was gradually replaced by ax-grinding articles?now for Matrimony, now for Health, now for the White Collar Ideal, now for Judaism. In this it took over the crusading functions of the Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine. Evidently the crusading was felt to be not the strongest selling feature of Hearst's International, for, though ax-grinding continued, bolstered by "human interest" features ranging in tenor from the earnest optimism...
Like all Hearst pulps, these two have vast circulations. In June, 1924, they were: Cosmopolitan, 1,126,767; Hearst's International, 439,655. Publisher Hearst's reasons for lumping these can only be guessed at. Perhaps he thinks the Cosmopolitan can swell, bigger and brighter, to another million or so. Perhaps he is disgusted with