Series I.B.4.b. 1973 to 1978 Business and Publishing: General Managers Winston Cox and Deane Raley Files, 1970-1977, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains Winston Cox's and Deane Raley's files that were found mixed together, maybe due to the transition of the role of General Manager from Cox to Raley. The files have not been separated.
Records document the business and publishing decisions made by the Magazines Development Group.
Restricted material includes staff performance reviews and agreements or contracts with Time Inc. as a party.
Arrangement
Organized into four subseries:
Subseries I.B.3.a. Administrative Files
Subseries I.B.3.b. Money
Subseries I.B.3.c. New Magazine Ideas
Subseries I.B.3.d. People
Biographical Note
Winston "Tony" Cox was an original member of the new Magazine Development Group holding the role of General Manager from 1973 to 1976. At that time, Deane Raley took over as GM. Prior to 1976, Raley was a production manager in the Time Inc. Production Department as well as an assistant to Group Vice President in charge of Magazine Publishing Art Keylor.
Subseries I.B.4.b.i. Administrative Files, 1973-1977, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
Administrative Files document business and publishing administrative activities and decisions of the Magazine Development Group.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically.
Act Media, 1977, inclusive
Annual Reports from Other Companies, 1977, inclusive
Budgets, 1973-1975, inclusive
Expenses of Attending Foreign Conventions, 1977, inclusive
General Electric / Time Inc., 1977, inclusive
How and Why People Buy Magazines, 1976, inclusive
Ideas on Launching a New Magazine, 1973, inclusive
Magazine Publishers Financial Reports, 1976, inclusive
Magazine Readership Study, 1975, inclusive
Magazine Single-Copy Sales, 1973-1974, inclusive
Magazine Startups, 1977, inclusive
Media Network, Inc., 1976, inclusive
Mergers, 1976-1977, inclusive
New York Subways Ads, 1976, inclusive
Non Paid Filler Ads, 1974, inclusive
Overhead Costs to Magazines, 1977, inclusive
Personnel, 1974-1977, inclusive
Personnel [RESTRICTED], 1974-1977, inclusive
Reader's Digest Merchandising Allowance, 1975, inclusive
Research: List of Mail Research Projects, 1976, inclusive
Salaries / Bonuses, 1974-1977, inclusive
Select Magazines Distribution, 1974, inclusive
Stanford Court Hotel, 1974, inclusive
Simmons, 1977, inclusive
Strategic Planning: Forecast, 1974, inclusive
Time Inc. Media Seminar, 1977, inclusive
Videocomp: Airey, Norm, 1977, inclusive
Subseries I.B.4.b.ii. Money, 1973-1974, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
Money includes financial planning records for the early years of the publication.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically.
Budgets, 1973-1974, inclusive
Strategic Planning, 1973, inclusive
Subseries I.B.4.b.iii. New Magazine Ideas, 1970-1976, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
New Magazine Ideas include charts listing ideas and the status of the idea, such as "no interest" or "under discussion"; and correspondence and proposals with suggestions for new magazines.
There is one folder of 1970 material from Stevens DeClerque, Assistant Publisher of Life.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically with general files in chronological order at the front.
General, 1973, inclusive
General, 1974, inclusive
General, 1975, inclusive
General, 1976, inclusive
Everyday, 1974, inclusive
Hillsboro Associates, 1976, inclusive
Lifetime Sports, 1976, inclusive
Lime House, 1976, inclusive
Mind and Body, circa 1975, inclusive
Outlook, 1974-1975, inclusive
Saving and Spending, 1976, inclusive
Sunlight, 1976, inclusive
TV Plus, 1970, inclusive
World Legal Letter, 1976, inclusive
Subseries I.B.4.b.iv. People, 1973-1977, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The files on People document business decisions for the first few years of publication, particularly advertising. Records include weekly reports from People Publisher Dick Durrell to Group Vice President in charge of Magazine Publishing Art Keylor regarding activities in editorial, circulation, advertising, promotion and publicity.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically.