A Snob's Guide To Status Magazines

June, 1967

Most Magazine advertising departments distribute "profiles" of their subscribers for the guidance of space-age space buyers. For example, the National Review subscriber, it says in the April 6, 1965 issue, is 40.3 years old, makes $13,129.77 a year, is 72 percent married and has 1.5 children. However, making exactly the right amount of money and having exactly the right number of legs under the table—or missing from under the table—is not the whole story. The drink-stained back issues...