The Press: Turnabout for Togetherness

When McCall's longtime Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Weise stalked out last winter (TIME. Nov. 17) after a fight about business-office interference in editorial affairs, 15 staffers went with him, left McCall's on the downgrade among the service magazines. But by this week, under tough-talking, tough-acting Herb Mayes, 59, who took over as editor two weeks after he was fired from the same job in Hearst's Good Housekeeping, McCall's was again just one big happy family-particularly because on the basis of present progress. McCall's plans to up its guaranteed circulation to a record 5,500,000 next February.

Although Predecessor Weise had stumbled over the issue...

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