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
People of the Talisman here. Ban Cruach also loses much of his mythical glamor in "Talisman", which is something of a let-down, though it does work as a "twist" conclusion. This story was first published under the title "Black Amazon of Mars" in the pulp magazine "Planet Stories", March 1951. In 1964, after a total revision and expansion, it was republished as "People of the Talisman", as one part of an Ace Double novel; its companion was another expanded Eric John Stark story, "The Secret of Sinharat". The expansion has sometimes been attributed to Brackett's husband, Edmond Hamilton. For "People of the Talisman", there