The Press: End of a Gossipist

Last week the Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, gossip monthly, reappeared on newsstands for the first time in two months. It had been sold by its founder-owner, Percival L. Harden, to Windsor Publishing Corp., owners of The Tatler & American Sketch, another gossip monthly, after two years, during which Mr. Harden was obliged by poor health to lease his property to an operating company (TIME. April 21). For 30 years prior to that. Publisher Harden had profited from chitchatting Club-Fellow.

As first copies of the revived magazine were being perused by readers, last...

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