As senior citizen among U.S. magazines, the Saturday Evening Post often acts its age. The Post has never moved fast. Around Philadelphia, where it has dwelt for 232 years,* the Post still makes inter-plant deliveries by electric truck, a form of conveyance that went out everywhere else with the Stanley Steamer. The Post spurned cigarette ads until 1930, liquor ads until 1958. It has changed editors only twice this century. Last week the Post was preparing to change editors again.
Out at year's end, said the Post in a quiet announcement, would go Kansas-born Ben Hibbs, 59, Post editor since 1942 when...
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