Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959, op. xi-xii.
4.
The two communities were selected because they represented a liberal community (New York) and one which had traditionally been hostile to 'blue' material (Boston).
5.
This study was not supported or assisted or endorsed by Confidential itself in any way.
6.
Wall Street Journal, April I9, 1957, p. I.
7.
Acknowledgment is made of the assistance of Elliott Winick in coding this material.
8.
Totals come to more than I00 per cent because the typical respondent gave more than one reason.
9.
For example, books by Diana Barrymore, Lillian Roth, Alexander King, Polly Adler, Edward J. Robinson, Jr., Billie Holiday.
10.
Vance Packard is the best known of the authors of what can be called 'sociable science'.
