Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average was 88,000 less than its average for the same period last year. Colonel McCormick decided to test the circulation winds with a straw. With utmost secrecy a Sunday magazine section was made up, printed in four colors. Very gingerly last week the first issue, called The Graphic Weekly, was sent out with the Sunday Tribune, but only to readers beyond a radius of 100 mi. from Chicago...
First issue of The Graphic Weekly was less attractive than The American Weekly in appearance but, as could have been predicted, much more restrained. It had none of the keyhole-peeping, naughty-prince-and-chambermaid, sin-among-undergraduates, bloody-murder type of article so frequently found in The American Weekly. And its "scientific" articles, favorites of all Sunday editors, were somewhat less imaginative. Features of the first issue: a description of the aborigines of Australia & New Zealand; the child temple-dancers of Bali; Ras Tafari's monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame...
...Tribune management would not admit that The Graphic Weekly is under experiment for city circulation. They insisted its sole purpose was to give more reading matter to subscribers in "the provinces" who, because they receive such early editions of the paper, are deprived of many sections which go to press later...
...once financially interested in the Sunday News. Six months ago prolific Author-Playwright Edgar Wallace acquired control, wrote theatrical criticism in it, gave horse-race tips, scattered his name and the name of his multifarious works throughout the paper. The Sunday News will be incorporated with the Sunday Graphic, a tabloid picture paper...
Married. Byrnece Macfadden, 19, of Englewood. X. J., daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, New York Evening Graphic); and one Louis Ignatius Muckerman of St. Louis...