The first cookie sales by an individual Scout unit was by the Mistletoe Troop
in Oklahoma, in December 1917 at their local high school. In 1922, the Girl
Scout magazine The American Girl suggested cookie sales as a fund-raiser,
providing a simple cookie recipe from a regional director for the Girl Scouts
of Chicago.

Six types of cookies were being sold nationwide by 1956 and today, up to 28
varieties of Girl Scout cookies are offered. As of 2007, sales were estimated
at about 200 million boxes per year.

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Cover of the first issue of News-Week magazine with seven photographs
from the week’s news.

News-Week was launched by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor
for Time. He obtained financial backing from a group of U.S. stockholders which 
included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family.

Journalist Thomas John Cardell Martyn

"My True Story" was heard for the first time on ABC radio. The daily
program was presented in cooperation with "True Story" magazine,
and continued for nearly 19 years.