“Explanatory” says that, unfortunately, I was allowed to have my way in a great many business matters.
The new Editors, Mann and DeFrance, give no specifications.
I will give some.
Into the very first number of the Magazine, Col. Mann inserted a full page advertisement of some of his nasty “Smart Set” books. When I saw that advertisement, which had been slipped into the magazine without my knowledge, Ted Flaacke, Advertising Manager, was summoned to my room, and told that there wasn’t money enough in New York to buy space in my Magazine for prurient literature of that sort.
I peremptorily demanded that the filthy thing be kept out, and it was kept out. It is due Mr. Flaacke to say, that he, himself, had known nothing of the ad. until the magazine was out.
This was the beginning of Col. Mann’s displeasure. He realized that he could never make a tool of me—as he is now making of DeFrance.
The Titles of some of those books are as follows:
“An Eclipse of Virtue,”
“Margaret’s Misadventure,”
“Naughty Elizabeth,”