Vanity Fair (U.S. magazine 1913–36) editor for some time. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues, although its circulation, at 90,000 copies, was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that "Vanity Fair" would be merged with "Vogue" (circulation 156,000) as of the March 1936 issue. In 1983 "Vanity Fair" was revived by Condé Nast Publications as a magazine of pop culture, fashion and politics. Vanity Fair (U.S. magazine 1913–36) Vanity Fair is an American society magazine published from 1913 to 1936. It was highly successful until the Great Depression led to its becoming unprofitable, and it
American Rocket Society to American Rocket Society on April 6, 1934. In 1936, the American Rocket Society and its member Alfred Africano were awarded the Prix d'Astronautique by the Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society) in recognition of their pioneering tests with liquid fueled rockets. The "Journal of the American Rocket Society" was published from 1945–53. Membership increased rapidly in the 1950s as the government funded "upper air research", and by the end of the decade it had reached 21,000. In early 1963, the ARS merged with the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences to become the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics