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In history of publishing: Women’s magazines in the United States
…first and most successful was Family Circle (founded 1932), given away in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets until 1946, when it was sold as a family monthly. Equally successful were Woman’s Day (founded 1937), published by a subsidiary of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, and Better Living (founded 1951), sponsored…
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Merrill

In Charles E. Merrill
… under whose auspices he founded Family Circle Magazine six years later. Foreseeing the impending stock-market crash, Merrill advised his firm’s clients to lighten their stock holdings in 1928. Many of them did and cut their losses.
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