| It's interesting to look back at the
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| | Cosmopolitan magazine was later sold to
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| origins of Cosmopolitan Magazine, seeing
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| | William Randolph Hearst in 1905. He
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| their first subscription numbers (in the
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| | began to expand the magazine by employing
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| 25,000) range, into what it has become
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| | top writers, and investigative
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| now--a modern day success. Its almost
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| | journalists. Some of the best articles
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| amazing how the content has evolved over
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| | written came from the recruiting sense of
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| the years--from a one-time family
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| | William Hearst, he employed Alfred Henry
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| magazine back in the late 19th
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| | Lewis, David Graham Philips, Ida Tarbell,
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| century--to what is now a demographic
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| | Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis and George
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| exclusive to females.
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| | Bernard Shaw, all who went on to write
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| Before cosmopolitan magazine experienced
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| | some of the most famous articles for
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| world wide success, the initial founders
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| | their time.
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| and editors (Schlicht & Field) went out
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| | As decades past, the magazine changed
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| of business only 2 years after the
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| | from strictly articles to short novels
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| company's launch. Only after E.D.
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| | and stories, sales soared (1.7 Million
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| Walker, an ex editor for Harper's Monthly
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| | copies in circulation) and over 5 million
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| purchased the rights to Cosmopolitan
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| | in advertising revenues in 1930.
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| magazine did the business really take
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| | Cosmopolitan magazine proved to be an
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| off. He didn't settle for the old way of
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| | unbelievable success, after the Second
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| doing things, with an innovative sense he
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| | World War magazine sales topped the 2
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| introduced book reviews, serial fiction,
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| | million mark. Unfortunately demand for
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| and color illustrations to the magazine.
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| | the magazines content decreased in the
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| Only 1 year later after Cosmopolitans
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| | 50s, circulation numbers crippled to just
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| booming popularity, E.D. Walker sold the
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| | over a million, despite the reduced
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| company to John Brisben Walker, who
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| | revenue cosmopolitan magazine
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| quickly employed some of the nation's top
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| | subscriptions were still a profitable
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| writers. He went on to open a free
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| | venture, even today Cosmopolitan is one
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| correspondence school, which he had to
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| | of the most subscribed to magazines in
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| retract almost immediately after only 2
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| | the world.
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| weeks more then 20,000 people signed up.
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