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Curtis Publishing Company
The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century. The company's publications included the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' and ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''The American Home'', ''Holiday'', ''Jack & Jill'', and ''Country Gentleman''. In the 1940s, Curtis also had a comic book imprint, Novelty Press.
==History==
The Curtis Publishing Company was founded in 1891 by publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who published the ''People's Ledger'', a news magazine he had begun in Boston in 1872 and moved to Philadelphia in 1876. He had also established the ''Tribune and Farmer'' in 1879, from the women's section of which he fashioned the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' under the editorship of his wife, Louisa Knapp, in 1883. These publications were taken under the imprimatur of the new company. In 1897, Curtis spent $1,000 to buy ''Saturday Evening Post'', which would become one of the nation's most popular periodicals, known for its timely articles and stories and frequent cover illustrations by Norman Rockwell.
The advent of television in the late 1940s and early 1950s eroded the popularity of general-interest periodicals like the ''Post'' and the ''Journal'', and in March, 1962, Curtis Publishing's president Robert A. MacNeal announced that the company had lost money for the first time since its incorporation more than seven decades before.〔Friedrich, Otto. ''Decline and Fall''. Harper and Row, 1970, p. 10〕 Perfect Film loaned the company $5 million in 1968 at the request of Curtis's primary loan holder, First National Bank of Boston, to extend its loans. Curtis sold its Philadelphia headquarters to real estate developer John W. Merriam for $7.3 million to pay off most of the First National loan; it then leased half of the building back.
In 1968, Curtis Publishing sold the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' and ''The American Home'' to Downe Communications for $5.4 million in stock,〔Bedingfield, R. E. ''Curtis Publishing Sells 2 Magazines; Downe Paying $5.4-Million in Stock'', The New York Times, August 15, 1968, Business and Finance section, p. 54.〕〔"Too Few Believers." ''Time''. Friday, Aug. 23, 1968.〕 and then sold the stock for cash to operate with. Six million ''Post'' subscribers were then sold to ''Life'' for cash, a $2.5 million loan and a contract with Curtis' circulation and printing services subsidiaries. Despite these attempts to revive the ''Saturday Evening Post'', and with no purchaser for the magazine, Curtis Publishing shut down the magazine in 1969. In March 1969, the Federal Trade Commission directs Curtis to offer cash refunds for unfulfilled portions of ''Post'' subscriptions. Perfect Film purchased Curtis Circulation Company that same year.〔 In 1976, The Saturday Evening Post Society was spun off from Curtis to publish its flagship magazine and U.S. Kids was formed which publishes their portfolio of children's magazines.〔http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/about〕
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