About three months ago George T. Delacorte Jr., a publisher without a humorous magazine, sought out Norman Hume Anthony, a humorous editor without a publisher. Publisher Delacorte wanted to add a funny paper to his successful string of 17 Dell magazines.— But Norman Anthony, onetime editor of Judge and Lije, did not want to edit it. What he said that he said was as follows:
"There's no use in trying. You can't be really funny in a magazine because the advertisers won't let you. Look what happened to us...
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