People (magazine) members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4, 1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the film "The Great Gatsby", on the cover. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action. The magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents (). The core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers
The Problem of the Covered Bridge Millie and jealous of Hank, saw his opportunity to kill his romantic rival and cover up the crime. The Problem of the Covered Bridge "The Problem of the Covered Bridge" (1974) is a mystery short story by Edward D. Hoch which was first published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" (Dec 1974 issue). It is part of a sub-type of the locked room mystery known as an impossible crime story. It introduces the characters of Dr. Sam Hawthorn, Sheriff Lens, and the town of Northmont. It is included in Hoch's book "Diagnosis: Impossible: The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne" (Crippen &