Vanity Fair (magazines) More than two thousand of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. The final issue of the British "Vanity Fair" appeared on February 5, 1914. "Vanity Fair" is a weekly magazine that was published by The Commonwealth Publishing Company of 110 West 42nd Street, New York City. The Commonwealth Publishing Company was incorporated in February 1902, and went into bankruptcy in April 1904. An American "Vanity Fair" was edited by Condé Montrose Nast from 1913 to 1936, when it was merged into "Vogue". It was revived
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