Jackie (magazine) especially if the story involved a "reader's true life experience". Both the comics and the short stories invariably dealt with either romance or family issues. The centre pages of the magazine usually contained a pull-out poster of a popular band or film star. The magazine featured a section called "Silly Star File", a humorous interview with figures from the world of pop music. "Jackie" became very popular with young teenage girls, not least because of the "Cathy and Claire" problem page, which received 400 reader letters a week and dealt with controversial issues that were nonetheless relevant to the readership.
Cathy A. Cowan Cathy A. Cowan Cathy A. Cowan is an American economist and social scientist. She earned her bachelor's degree from Indiana University in business and went on to attain a master's degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina. After completing her education, she worked in the 1990s as a program analyst for the Health Care Financing Administration, which later became the National Health Statistics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Her research focuses on health care expenditure in the United States, comparing the trends of government, business and personal spending patterns. Besides issuing quarterly