The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post was an American weekly magazine that was published from 1821 to 1969.

History

The first issue of the magazine was published on 4 August 1821. Starting in 1897 she appeared in the publisher Curtis Publishing Company, whose owner Cyrus Curtis, the legend will later put into circulation, the Saturday Evening Post was of the published by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century Pennsylvania Gazette emerged. Under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer in the years 1899-1937 the sheet became one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S..

The Saturday Evening Post reported on political and social events, but also published literary works, especially short stories by renowned authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, CS Forester and Ray Bradbury. Furthermore, the sheet for his title images was known, were mainly of JC Leyendecker, after 1916 more than four decades of Norman Rockwell and later also designed by the Danish illustrator Kurt Ard in 1898.

Since the late 1950s the sheet like most other magazines suffered considerable decline in circulation, which was due mainly to the advent of television as a medium competition. To counter this, the far -right conservative sheet opened against Boulevard topics, Rockwell's elaborate drawings on the cover gave way to increasingly photographs.

The end of the Saturday Evening Post in 1969, after the sheet had alleged in an article that the football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Wally Butts had manipulated a league match of their team ( University of Alabama against University of Georgia ). Butts sued the paper and won the case in the last instance in the Supreme Court of the United States. The case of Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts is still regarded as one of the precedents for the offense of defamation; the sheet was sentenced to pay damages in the amount of $ 3,060,000 and had to be adjusted if this financial burden.

In 1971, the post was indeed revived, but operates under this title now a bimonthly medical division magazine.

Publisher

• William George Jordan (1898-1899)
• George Horace Lorimer (1899-1937)
• Wesley Winans Stout (1937-1942)
• Ben Hibbs (1942-1962)
• Robert Fuoss (1962 )
• Robert Sherrod (1962 )
• Clay Blair, Jr. (1962-1964)
• William A. Emerson, Jr. (1965-1969)