Link to April 17 New York Times article, "A Magazine, Long Gone, is Given Digital CPR".
Excerpt: Liberty Magazine traversed the American scene from the Jazz Age through the Great Depression and World War II before halting publication in 1950. Sometimes referred to in its time as the second-greatest magazine in the country next to The Saturday Evening Post, Liberty was started in 1924 by Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of The Daily News, and Col. Robert R. McCormick, the publisher of The Chicago Tribune.
Costing a nickel, it tried to go slightly downscale from The Post and aimed for a general audience; its slogan was “Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody.”
“What made Liberty unique was it was trying to be more for the masses,” said Jared Gardner, a professor of English, film and popular culture at Ohio State University who is also an editor of American Periodicals, a scholarly journal.
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