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known for its men's magazines and digests, K G
Murray also published a now little-known and
scarce children's monthly digest, 'Humpty
Dumpty's'. Published "by arrangement with
the Parents' Institute Inc.", each issue ran
to around 100 pages and cost 2/- . Printed on
cheap pulp-type paper by Kenmuir Press of North
Lidcombe, NSW, its cover included the following: * Stories to be
read to children
* And stories for beginning readers
* Things to do
* Cut-outs
* Games
* Puzzles
A
glance through a sampling from 1955-56 reveals
that these issues would certainly provide good
entertainment for young readers with their many
pages of the above, and short stories in large
print.
Authors
include the following names, some of which may be
pseudonyms!
Martin
Gardner, Lilian Moore, Vivian Holgerson, Blanche
Boshinski, La Verne Johnson, F Ziner, Vivian
Gouled, Mary Blatt Koch, Jane Gale-Parr, Rose
Ross, La Verne Anderson, Myroslav Diakowski,
Louis Herbert, Mildred Burgum, Jerrold Beim, Ruth
Rames Munson, Margaret O Hyde, Ardis Oglesby,
Lois Hobart, Janet Beattie and others. The first
two names are the regulars.
Unlike
today's ad-filled glossies, the only advertising
to be found apeared on both cover insides and
rear cover. Stamina school clothes, 'Fashion
Flair' (presumably another Murray publication),
the Commonwealth Savings
Bank, 'Tommy Tuna' for Greenseas Tuna, Festival
children's records, Arthur Mee's children's
encyclopaedia seemed to be the regulars.
If
anyone cane come up with further details, please
contact John at the address below.
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