Word: pages
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results were astonishing to both readers and editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design...
When the Sept. 1 issue of Vogue (circ. 345,358) went on sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that...
Flair's sample issue has an off-white hard cover, with a second, illustrated cover visible through a triangular peephole. Flair abounds with other tricks. There is an accordion-style pull-out on interior decoration, a pocket-sized book insert, a swatch of cotton fabric, even a page written in invisible ink that can be read when it is heated by a lighted match...
Convictions. This summer, for 2½ months, Publisher Gray and Editor Martin fought out the battle of the bottle on the Journal editorial page, though in the news columns, both newspapers played up stories favoring repeal. The mayor backed Gray; the churches lined up behind Martin...
...Editor R. T. Peyton-Griffin ran a story about a minor squabble between an Englishwoman and a Japanese consul 28 years ago, articles on Philosopher Lao-tse and Hittite hieroglyphics. But though the paper was being starved to death, it could not just lie down and die. In a Page-One box, Peyton-Griffin plaintively announced: "This journal is petitioning the appropriate authorities for permission to cease publication...