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	Munsey's Magazine St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Munsey, who had grown up poor in rural Maine, recognized that most of the growing American middle class could not afford magazines, so he dropped the cover price of his failing literary monthly from twenty-five to ten cents per copy.
		Munsey's Magazine jumped in readership overnight, becoming the world circulation leader by 1907, and came to be recognized as the prototype of the modern popular magazine.
		Frank Munsey was born on August 21, 1854,; and grew up on a series of struggling farms near Augusta, Maine.
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	Frank Andrew Munsey Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), American publisher, built a newspaper and magazine empire in the early 20th century.
		Frank Munsey was born in Mercer, Maine, on Aug. 21, 1854, the son of poor but hardworking parents.
		Munsey's was less distinguished than most of these, but in 1893 Munsey made the magazine more salable by cutting his price to 10 cents.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/frank-andrew-munsey (460 words)

	Frank Andrew Munsey - LoveToKnow 1911
		"FRANK ANDREW MUNSEY (1854-), American publisher and newspaper proprietor, was born at Mercer, Me., Aug. 21 1854.
		He was educated in the public schools and became a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. In 1882 he went to New York City and established The Golden Argosy, a magazine for children, later changing this to The Argosy, a magazine for adult readers.
		In 1889 he founded Munsey's Weekly, replaced two years later by Munsey's Magazine, the first monthly of its class to sell for the popular price of ten cents.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Frank_Andrew_Munsey (207 words)

	Art for Industry's Sake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Munsey was born on August 21, 1854, on a farm in the Sandy River region of Maine about 30 miles north of Augusta.
		Munsey, who had accumulated $100,000 in debt over the course of his eleven years in the business, was on the verge of collapse himself.
		Frank Munsey had set off the Ten Cent Magazine revolution in 1893 by applying to the general-interest magazine market the same economic logic that Curtis had applied to the women's magazine market ten years earlier.
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	Corrected typescript for "Personal Recollections of Mr. Frank Munsey" with numerous corrections. - SILBERSTEIN, PAUL,
		Munsey on his European trip of June 1925, the accounts from this trip for Mr.
		Munsey on this trip, a carbon of a letter to Colonel McLean from Silberstein, newspaper clippings about Munsey including several obituaries (all pasted down) and a single sheet captioned "An Appeal.
		Frank A. Munsey an appreciation by his associate and friend Erman H. Ridgway" which bears a notation that this offprint proceeded the newspaper article and that it would be appreciated if nothing was reprinted from it before its newspaper release on the 24th December 1926 [Chula Vista, California: Denrich Press, December 22, 1926]
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	AllRefer.com - Frank Andrew Munsey (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frank Andrew Munsey[mun´sE] Pronunciation Key, 1854–1925, American publisher and author, b.
		He started the Golden Argosy (1882) as a juvenile magazine, for which he wrote serials himself, changed it to the Argosy for adults, and supplanted this with Munsey's Magazine (1889).
		Munsey cut the price from 25 cents to 10 cents (1893), and the magazine became a success.
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	Magazine Subscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		S.S. McClure and Frank Munsey were the Rupert Murdoch (and, I suppose, Mort Zuckerman) of their day, but in a more primal, less sophisticated, fashion.
		Munsey never espoused any goal except to make big money in the magazine trade (he succeeded).
		Munsey's specialized in sentiment and western fiction, and was the first magazine to print female nudes (captioned as 'art') in America.
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	Filboid Studge: May 2006
		Norman Lynd (1878-1943) was a staff artist on the New York Herald from 1907 until it merged with the Tribune in 1924.
		Publisher Frank Munsey, pulp magazine pioneer and great merger and destroyer of newspapers, fired Lynd immediately upon purchasing the Herald.
		Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker.
	filboidstudge.blogspot.com /2006_05_01_filboidstudge_archive.html (362 words)

	Frank Munsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Andrew Munsey (21 August 1854 – 22 December 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author.
		He also founded the Puritan and the Junior Munsey, and some time after purchased the Washington Times (1901); the New York Daily News, which he conducted from 1901 to 1904; the The Boston Journal (1902); the Baltimore News-American; the The Philadelphia Evening Times, which was discontinued in 1914; and the New York Press.
		Munsey died in New York City in 1925 at age 67.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Munsey (494 words)

	Frank Munsey Summary
		Frank A.Munsey was a vocal proponent of the application of business methods and concepts to the newspaper business from the turn of the century into the 1920s.
		As a publisher of magazines and newspapers, Frank A. Munsey was a man ahead of his time.
		Frank Munsey: Flynn's Detective Fiction from 1941, one of the magazines published by Frank A. Munsey Co. long after his death.
	www.bookrags.com /Frank_Munsey (270 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Records > Obituaries
		She was born in Tulsa, Okla., and assisted with missionary work in Japan for 20 years before returning to the United States in 1987.
		She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Munsey Sr., and a son, Kenneth Munsey.
		and Ruth Munsey of Munster, Ind.; a daughter, Frances Munsey of College Station; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and numerous great-great-grandchildren.
	www.theeagle.com /region/records/obituaries/april2004/042404obits.php (1119 words)

	TIME.com: Another Buy -- Feb. 4, 1924 -- Page 1
		Frank A. Munsey, the great consolidator, added another paper to his history.
		Munsey's newspaper holdings now total: The New York Herald (morning), The Sun and The Globe (Manhattan, evening), The Telegram and Evening Mail (Manhattan) and the Paris edition of The New York Herald.
		Munsey has made 16 purchases of newspapers and six sales and has net, on hand, four newspapers.
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	Amazon.com: "Frank Munsey": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Munsey died in 1925, William Allen White expressed the sentiment of many when he wrote: Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead.
		In 1916 the paper was bought by Frank Munsey, the rising newspaper magnate and merger king.
		The financial angels of the campaign were Frank Munsey, a rich newspaper publisher, and George Perkins, the elegant Morgan partner who approved of Roosevelt's views that regulation,...
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	Top Story
		Frank Munsey turned those words into action when he revamped Argosy in the 1890s and transformed American magazine publishing for the next 50 years.
		Munsey's new Argosy introduced American readers to the "pulp" magazine, so named because the inexpensive paper it was printed on was made from pulpwood scraps.
		One hundred years after Frank Munsey introduced the pulp magazine, the ideal is still around and interest in pulp-magazine stories continues.
	www.ewu.edu /easternmagazine/archived/Winter2000/TopStory.html (1258 words)

	Pulp and Dagger -- Editorial #14
		The Pulp era reportedly began, in the last decade of the 19th Century, when a man named Frank Munsey got the marvelous idea that maybe the story was more important than the paper it was printed on.
		When Munsey began his marvelous experiment, he was probably simply trying to create a market where none had existed before.
		Munsey proved that this was, to put it delicately, bull ca-ca.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/editorial14.html (1683 words)

	Notes on the culture of marketing and the marketing of culture Whole Earth Review - Find Articles
		Munsey, who had grown up poor in rural Maine, saw a large, broad, national audience that couldn't afford magazines, so he lowered the cover price of his failing literature magazine, Munsey's, from twentyfive cents to ten and had advertisers pay the difference.
		It was no accident that Frank Munseyrevered J. Pierpont Morgan, the prime financier of the American industrial monopolies of that time; or that Munsey, like his friend Horatio Alger, wrote stories about young men succeeding at the wheels of industry.
		Like many turn-of-the-century industrialists, Munsey was dedicated to knitting the disparate United States together into one mass marketplace.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1510/is_1987_Spring/ai_4793263 (774 words)

	American Journalism Review
		"Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the great talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker.
		While it may seem that newspapers are being traded like 8 percent securities, the motivation now is different from the greed-driven actions of Munsey.
		Direct mail, the growing number of weeklies and shoppers, changes in how advertisers view newspapers and mounting competition from the Internet are all forcing changes in how newspapers, especially small ones, do business (see The Business of Journalism, May).
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3443 (761 words)

	Amazon.com: "Frank Luther Mott": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the fiction often seems formulaic and tame by modern standards, Frank Luther Mott said that "the dominant subject in every number from 1912 until 1918 was sex-sex in society, sex in adventure, sex...
		LIFE BROOKLYN LIFE Brooklyn Life was one of the urban weekly magazines that flourished in the 1890s, a genre that Frank Luther Mott characterized as "a journal of society, amusement, politics, and literary miscellany."' During the nineteenth century, Brooklyn emerged as both an...
		Frank Luther -- Find pics, news, movies, interviews, filmography and more at Moviefone.
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	Frank A. Munsey \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business.
		Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable.
		Due to his efforts, Munsey's Magazine had the largest circulation of any magazine in the world.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/645 (47 words)

	Guy Wetmore Carryl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl’s famous quote “It takes two bodies to make one seduction,” which was a somewhat risqué statement for those times.
		After graduation, in 1896 he became a staff writer for Munsey's Magazine under Frank Munsey and he was later promoted to managing editor of the magazine.
		Some of Carryl’s more well-known works were his humorous poems that were parodies of Aesop's Fables, such as “The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven” and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as “The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet,” poems which are still popular today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Wetmore_Carryl (438 words)

	Expository Essays Research Papers -- Impact of Pulp Magazines on American Culture
		“The story is worth more than the paper it is printed on.” Frank Munsey’s words symbolized the history of the pulp magazine.
		Frank Munsey started the pulp magazine craze with his first magazine, the Argosy, in 1896.
		The Argosy was a revamping of his children’s magazine, the Golden Argosy, shifting its focus from children to adults.
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	NYPL, Popular Publications, Inc. Records, c.1910-1995
		In 1942 the firm acquired the literary properties of the Frank A. Munsey Co. The records include correspondence of the Frank A. Munsey Co. and of Popular Publications, Inc. relating to copyright, literary and editorial matters; copyright registration records, index card files of authors; and canceled checks.
		The cancelled checks (1910-72) were issued by Popular Publications, Inc., Frank A. Munsey Co., All-Fiction Field, Inc., Fictioneers, Inc., Recreational Reading, Inc., and New Publications, Inc. Most of the checks are annotated (above the endorsement line) with the title of the literary property, and the kinds of rights transferred (i.e., serial, North-American, etc.).
		Included is correspondence from writers proposing travel articles and adventure stories; from congressmen (1960) regarding American servicemen allegedly held prisoner by Communist China; and from governors, congressmen and distillers responding to an article on the illegal traffic in liquor published in Argosy (February 1956).
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	JS Online: MMSD dumped sewage for 13 hours
		The deep tunnel and the rest of the sewer system worked just fine in the face of the heavy rainfall, according to officials from MMSD and United Water Services, the private contractor that runs the deep tunnel and the city's two sewage treatment plants.
		The practice, called "blending" by sewer officials, involves skipping the second major step in the treatment process and combining that flow with a larger volume of fully treated wastewater.
		The tunnel never was intended to capture every drop of wastewater, Munsey said.
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	Current Issue: Journal of Magazine and New Media Research
		American magazine pioneer Frank A. Munsey left a questionable legacy to today's editors and publishers.
		In 1893, Munsey lowered the cover price of Munsey's Magazine and filled the economic gap with what was then a new source of income: advertising.
		When Munsey died in 1925, White wrote one of the most famous and acerbic epitaphs in journalism history:
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	Postbellum Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Taking all these things into consideration while researching what America was reading and why, led me to a society that had suffered great impact from the civil war.
		As told by Frank Luther Mott the American people had "eaten a tremendously big meal and were suffering from a painful indigestion." (Mott 1)
		Mott believes our nation had been greatly affected by assimilation, scandals among the railroads along with the slaughtering of millions of buffalos, and the conflict the Union has among the other southern states (Mott 1).
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	Pulpworld.com© Read about the History of Pulp Magazines... Buy & Sell Pulp Collectibles
		He began as general store owner in Maine at which he failed then became the manager of the Western Union Telegraph office in Augusta, Maine.
		In 1882 he moved to New York City and became the editor and publisher of The Golden Argosy in 1883, first as a magazine for juveniles then as a weekly adventure fiction magazine for adults.
		In February 1889 he began publishing Munsey's Weekly which was the first ten-cent periodical.
	www.pulpworld.com /biography/frank_munsey.htm (280 words)

	Paperback Books
		Two years after they began, 1891, Frank Munsey, publisher of the youth magazine "Argosy", reasoned that the second paperback revolution demonstrated people cared more about the story than how it was printed and took a major gamble by changing to a newly invented, very cheap pulp paper.
		During the next fifteen years, Munsey would accumulate a personal fortune in excess of nine million dollars.
		The Munsey pulp fiction triumph and the Street and Smith conversion virtually wiped out what little was left of the paperback book business.
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	Magazine Data File
		An illustrated publication surrounding and about women from the publisher of The Munsey Magazine, filled with photos, illustrations, stories, and articles.
		Curtis, Fitz-James O'Brien, Parke Godwin, James Fenimore Cooper etc; it was likened to an American Blackwood's but more mellow and attractive; 2nd series published Frank R. Stockton, W. Dean Howells and merged with Hours at Home to form Scribner's Monthly; third series ran Don Marquis, Gelett Burgess and was more of a literary review.
		One of Frank Munsey's many short-lived magazines that was ultimately merged into Junior Munsey.
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	Magazines, Listed by Title
		* ___ v 9 #3, November 1907 (Frank A. Munsey Co., 10¢, 192+32+36pp, pulp) (the reason I have the pages listed this way is because after the regular fiction pages and the advertising pages, there is another 36 pages with the numbering beginning over again with page 1.
		* ___ v 16 #3, March 1910 (Frank A. Munsey Company, The, 6d, 385-576pp, pulp) This is the British edition, but appears identical to the US edition.
		* ___ v 17 #1, May 1910 (Frank A. Munsey Company, The, 6d, 192pp, pulp) This is the British edition, but appears identical to the US edition.
	www.philsp.com /homeville/FMI/b7.htm (2707 words)

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