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Candybox-Cover Girls. The Weekly's advertising was ebbing and its circulation (still a giant 9,966,689) had dipped under that of its chief competitor, This Week. To pull it out of the slump, Publisher Hearst called in a magazine specialist, Ernest V. Heyn, 47, who founded and edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew...
...killing, he was dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...
...speech before Washington's National Press Club last week, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson ticked off some impressive figures on how fast the U.S. is expanding its industrial plant for the long pull ahead. Items...
...first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped...
...carpet wool prices jumped from 85? a lb. to as high as $2.30. In an attempt to keep up with soaring raw-wool prices, U.S. manufacturers priced their carpets right out of the market. As sales dropped and inventories piled up, three big price cuts in carpets failed to pull the industry out of its worst slump in years; production was headed for a 20% fall. Last week Bigelow-Sanford, biggest U.S. carpetmaker, took a major step to free itself from wool...