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Among the Christmas magazines at the news-stalls there lay a newcomer, a monthly fiction magazine, with a creamy cover, a big golden moon, a golden skirted lady and gold stars. You stared at this magazine because there, beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back...
...Aside from Dr. Cook's fanciful voyage to the North Pole, no fiction of modern times approaches that involved in the movement to change the historic name of Mount Rainier bestowed by its discoverer, Captain George Vancouver, in 1792, in accordance with time honored custom, to Mount Tacoma, on the plea that the latter was the aboriginal name. The rank and file of the people of Tacoma are sincere and honorable?a typical cross section of the genus Americanus. They have been told?and are told daily? that the Indian name was Mount Tacoma, and they are ready to fight...
...International and its paltry 439,655 paid subscribers. Perhaps he himself is weary of cheap "human interest" articles in this particular portion of his vast press and feels he can best serve the Nation by concentrating on pure, unabashed fiction...
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...
...same. The International, which was started in 1901 by a bishop of the Re-formed Episcopal Church and entitled Current Encyclopedia, later The World Today, was acquired by Publisher Hearst in 1911. In 1912, it became Hearst's 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...