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
Craftsman Magazine glossy four colour cover on Issue number 13, Winter 1986, had a cover price of 40p and coincided with WH Smith agreeing to stock the magazine. The first issue to be seen on their shelves throughout Britain was Number 22, June/July 1988, by which time the magazine had increased frequency to six issues a year and was printed on glossy paper throughout. Issue number 50 February/March 1993 marked ten years since the launch of Craftsman Magazine, which was now being produced by Angie and Paul Boyer from their address in East Yorkshire, having moved to the north of England from