Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Pictorial Review Pictorial Review The Pictorial Review was an American women's magazine published from 1899 to 1939. Based in New York, the "Pictorial Review" was first published in September 1899. The magazine was originally designed to showcase dress patterns of German immigrant, William Paul Ahnelt's American Fashion Company. On the title page of "Pictorial Review", on each sheet of its letterhead, was a rococo device: a scroll with the numeral "13" and a pencil, surrounded by a wreath. That trademark was adopted by Ahnelt shortly after he founded "Pictorial Review". It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern