Benjamin Franklin founded the Saturday Evening Post. George Horace Lorimer made it great. The Post is 196 years old. Lorimer has been its editor for just 25 years. Last week he celebrated this 25th anniversary with a plethora of flowers and innumerable congratulations.
In 1899 when Mr. Lorimer became editor of the Post it was a little magazine of 16 pages without a cover. Its circulation was about 2,000 copies. Today it runs close to the 200-page mark, and has a circulation of about 2,500,000.
The man who performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest....
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