Here's a new listing of the only pulp magazine appearance of AYN RAND'S work. They published the novelette ANTHEM in the last issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Included are also illustrations by the great pulp era illustrators Lawrence, and Virgil Finlay. Here!
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CORONET was a nice little magazine published (originally) by the same publishers as Esquire, from 1936 to 1961. I think it is sometimes overlooked as a collectible now because it has been out of business for a while. But in it's day its combination of interesting articles and photo "stories" was popular. Here's a great example: Somehow they managed to get Salvador Dali to do some paintings for them, exclusively. There are photos in the listing, here.
We have almost ALL the original issues of CORONET available here, and MANY Back issues of ESQUIRE, from the 1930s to the present day!
"A magazine must be like a human being.
If it comes into the home
it must contribute.
It just can't lie around.
A magazine must have...
..blood and brains and pizzazz. "
--- From Funny Face (1957), starring Fred Astaire (in a character molded after the great magazine photographer Richard Avedon), and Audrey Hepburn as the girl who gets to wear all those glorious fashions. Directed by Stanley Donen.
NEWSREEL OF A CHANGING WORLD
By OGDEN NASH.
Author of "Hard Lines," "FreeWheeling," and "Happy Days"
I do not care for digests, as a rule.
I loathe the knowledge -- in-a-nutshell school,
Philosophy writ that he who runs may read
And history capsules, culture guaranteed..
The erudition gleaned from tabloid courses
Less valid seems than Mexican divorces,
And minds that feed on literary gossip
Make fiddlers change their flames from George to Ossip.
There's no fool like a semi-literate fool
I do not care for digests, as a rule.
Such being his convictidns, what a wry jest!
This bard is wedded to THE READER'S DIGESTS
No weighty periodical pretentions,
Settling the world with sentiments sententious;
No roll-your-own-degree-young-fellow college,
No Bar-B-Q on the royal road to knowledge;
But faithful before your eyes unfurled,
An accurate newsreel of a changing world;
Encyclopedia rather than résumé,
A current record of our seething day.
For digests as a rule I do not care.
THE READER'S DIGEST commands un autre galère.
From The Reader's Digest, January, 1934 Edition, Back Cover.
Update: The magazine is available here.
