Stillman Panorama

Panorama it was called. A pretty smart-chart, plastered with splendid examples of photography, made out of nice paper, containing notes on the gregarious activities of social bigwigs, it made its debut on Manhattan newsstands last October (TIME, Oct. 8). The frontispiece, naturally, was a picture of Mrs. Anne U. Stillman, since she was financing the sheet.

Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman:

"It has been quite an adventure but I think after this I shall stick to aviation. I have already brought up a large family and I found that running Panorama was like having another family on my hands. Writing people are very temperamental, I find."

Editor Mayer stated that he wished to purchase Panorama and continue publishing it. He said that his offer of a "large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25-c- a copy in October, dropped to 15-c- in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead."

O'Brien Retires

Robert Lincoln O'Brien, 63, retired last week as editor of the Boston Herald, a post he had held with distinction for 18 years.

Said the Herald: "To Mr. O'Brien, in whatever work he may choose to undertake--and we hope that an adequate life of Grover Cleveland will be a part of it* the Herald wishes a continuance of health, wealth and happiness."

Frank W. Buxton, as managing editor and conductor of the editorial page, succeeds Mr. O'Brien. In 1923, Mr. Buxton won the Pulitzer prize with his editorial, ''Who Made Calvin Coolidge?"

Again, Life

A Scotchman once made a talking movie and dropped all his aiches because he wasn't paid for them.

How wonderful! So you've got the fascinating modern furniture now.

No, Uncle Bill gave little Johnny a chest of tools for Christmas.

Nowadays, if a man falls by the wayside the chances are that he was a pedestrian.

The above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life, Jan. 11.

*Mr. O'Brien was personal secretary to President Cleveland.