In its rickety, five-story house on Manhattan's West 46th Street, well within earshot of Broadway's clatter and chatter, Variety last week passed its 40th birthday. To celebrate it, pink-cheeked, bow-tied Editor Abel Green, 44, and his staff went to press with a bulging, green-covered, 324-page anniversary number that was five-sixths advertising.
The day it came out, Editor Green herded his staffers (Variety calls them "muggs") upstairs into a dusty, top-floor parlor. He was going away for 'a couple of months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would...
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