Ad-less Literary Magazine Plans April Publication

The first issue of a new literary magazine will be published shortly after spring vacation, Bradley S. Phillips '51, publisher and editor-in-chief announced last night.

Phillips and his associates, Harold R. Brodkey '51, James W. Downes, and Jerome W. Goodman '52 primarily want to interest publishers of other magazines to buy and reprint articles from the new venture. The editors have contacted several publishers and told them of the plan.

Privately Financed

The new publication, as yet unnamed, will use mostly fiction articles. Being privately financed, it will contain no advertisements. Contributors need not be undergraduates, Phillips said.

According to its editors the new venture will cater to "a wide, but select audience." Publication may be delayed, for the policy of other editors on printing already-published material has not as yet been ascertained. In addition, Phillips is uncertain whether he can get enough material of sufficiently high quality.

In the fall of 1949 three members of the Advocate's business board broke away from their mother magazine to form what they hoped would be a "less esoteric" publication.

However, Norris W. Darrell '51, A. Chase Shafer '51, and William E. Wiggin '50 met constant difficulty with finances and material, and after frequent post-ponoments abandoned the project.

The magazine, to have been called either "The Moon" or "The Lute and Lyre," was to have resembled "Punch."