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25-476: A representative of the publisher of True magazine met Jack Webb at a party in New York and suggested the magazine as a source of material. Webb and others then researched the magazine's files for story ideas. Stories were adapted for television primarily by head writer Harold Jack Bloom . More than half of the episodes were directed by William Conrad , who portrayed Matt Dillon on radio's Gunsmoke and

50-552: A True cover story with the headline "A Night of Terror in the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant." "The Last Days of Ty Cobb" by sportswriter Al Stump , which appeared in an issue of True in 1961, coincided with an autobiography of baseball great Ty Cobb published that year that the two men had collaborated on during the last months of Cobb's life. Decades later, the film Cobb , which starred Tommy Lee Jones , showed

75-626: A 1962–63 television series filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank for CBS, featured stories based on the magazine's articles. Jack Webb was the executive producer, host and narrator. The Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign has a lengthy run of True back issues. A feature in Mad Magazine titled "When Advertising Takes Over Magazines Completely" depicted

100-686: A better position at the Middletown Times-Herald (now the Times Herald-Record ), Middletown , New York. During the early 1930s, Stern worked on a part-time basis in the office of the Kings County , New York, District Attorney where his investigation led to the conviction of those behind a prostitution ring; it became the basis for his 1936 book, The White Ticket: Commercialized Vice in the Machine Age . He

125-481: A sold-out issue in which Donald E. Keyhoe suggested that extraterrestrials could be piloting flying saucers. The material was reworked by Keyhoe into a best-selling paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are Real (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1950). True did follow-up UFO reports in 1967 and 1969. Frank Bowers edited The True Report on Flying Saucers (1967). The magazine was the source for a number of other books, including True, A Treasury of True: The Best from 20 Years of

150-708: The Holohan Murder Case , in which an American OSS agent in Italy behind enemy lines was killed in 1944 by his own men. After former Lt. Aldo Icardi was charged with perjury in August 1955 based on his testimony to a Congressional subcommittee about the circumstances of Holahan's death(case was dismissed by the Hon. Keech), The New York Times credited Stern's investigations, in addition to efforts by Holahan's brother and those of U.S. and Italian authorities, in having

175-788: The Hudson River in the Manhattan borough of New York City which opened in 1982. The two also collaborated on the creation of the Fisher House program to create lodging for families of those military personnel who have been in medical-care facilities and the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at Rockefeller University , New York City. He created the Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Foundation in 2001. Currently, actor Michael J. Fox (who

200-659: The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, United States. Stern was born on August 3, 1910, at a farm in the Brooklyn borough of New York City and attended Alexander Hamilton High School (now Paul Robeson High School) there. He majored in journalism at Syracuse University , Syracuse , New York, leaving school just before his graduation. After leaving college, he took a job at The New York Journal in New York City but left for

225-521: The True columns as B. Wms. He died 12 Dec. 1948 in his New York apartment at age 43 from a heart ailment. Source: UP press release Dec. 13, 1948. American journalist Michael Stern published his interview with the Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano in True magazine in 1947. In the early 1950s, when Ken Purdy was True' s editor, Newsweek described it "a man's magazine with a class all its own, and

250-567: The 1968 version of Satyricon , directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro . His 1988 film Run for Your Life starred Lauren Hutton and George Segal . During his travels to the U.S., Stern developed a friendship with builder and philanthropist Zachary Fisher . Together, they established the Intrepid Museum Foundation in 1978 to raise the funds needed to establish the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, on

275-464: The 1970s. The cover price in 1963 was 35 cents, climbing to 50 cents by 1965 and 60 cents in 1970. Fawcett also did special issues, such as True's Baseball Yearbook , True's Football Yearbook , published annually from 1963 to 1972, and True's Boxing Yearbook . True' s various spin-offs included calendars, such as George Petty 's True Magazine Petty Girl Calendar for 1948 , published by Fawcett in 1947. In January 1950, True went back to press after

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300-586: The American forces, under General Mark Wayne Clark , took control of the city from the retreating German Army. He stayed in Rome for the next 50 years, reporting on Sicilian mobster Lucky Luciano and other colorful characters from that period. In 1947 he managed to interview with the Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano which was published in True magazine in 1947. These profiles were collected for his 1953 book No Innocence Abroad , which included details of

325-532: The GE logo, but included a superimposed quotation from Daniel Webster : "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange." Strong symphonic music was featured as part of a majestic opening theme. Webb walked alongside the TRUE sign and stated either "And this, is true" (GE logo variant) or simply "This is true". The sign became brightly lit and the camera changed to a direct view of Webb, who then introduced

350-1099: The January 1975, issue. It was sold to Magazine Associates in August 1975, and ceased publication shortly afterward. High adventure, sports profiles and dramatic conflicts were highlighted in articles such as "Living and Working at Nine Fathoms" by Ed Batutis, "Search for the Perfect Beer" by Bob McCabe and the uncredited "How to Start Your Own Hunting-Fishing Lodge." In addition to pictorials ("Iceland, Unexpected Eden" by Lawrence Fried ) and humor pieces ("The Most Unforgettable Sonofabitch I Ever Knew" by Robert Ruark ), there were columns, miscellaneous features and regular concluding pages: "This Funny Life," "Man to Man Answers," "Strange But True" and " True Goes Shopping." Donald Ayres "Bill" Williams became associated with Fawcett Publications in 1941, serving first as editor of Mechanix Illustrated . He became editor of True from 1944–48. He wrote columns in True called “The Editor Speaks” or “Thus Spake Bill Williams.” He signed off on

375-481: The Man's Magazine (Barnes, 1956), edited by Charles N. Barnard and illustrated by Carl Pfeufer, and Bar Guide (Fawcett, 1950) by Ted Shane and Virgil Partch . Cartoon collections included Cartoon Laffs from True, the Man's Magazine (Crest Books, 1958), True Album of Cartoons (Fawcett, 1960), Cartoon Treasury (Fawcett, 1968) and New Cartoon Laughs: A Prize Collection from True Magazine (Fawcett, 1970). GE True ,

400-583: The U.S. Army during World War II, he was a war correspondent starting in 1943 for the North American Newspaper Alliance and Fawcett Publications , publisher of True . He followed Allied forces to Algeria as part of Operation Torch , and accompanied the Allied troops during their invasion of Sicily and their subsequent invasion of mainland Italy . Together with Fred Rosen , Stern entered Rome on June 3, 1944, one day before

425-533: The anti-Nazi Black Front and left Germany to escape Adolf Hitler . These articles were later published in book form as Flight From Terror , which he wrote together with Strasser. He was granted a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University based on the book. His interviews with the crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber Memphis Belle were the basis for his book Into the Jaws of Death . With

450-722: The case pursued. Robert Ruark wrote the foreword for Stern's 1964 book, An American in Rome , describing Stern as "a legend in modern Rome" who is "a tough boy, and... writes tough prose". Stern entered film production while in Rome. His first film was the 1960 movie Femmine di lusso (released in the United States as Love, the Italian Way ), directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Elke Sommer and Ugo Tognazzi ; The 1967 film L'Avventuriero (also released as The Rover ), directed by Terence Young , starred Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn ; Tognazzi also starred in

475-516: The conflicted Stump torn between writing Cobb's story the way his subject wanted it or a version that portrayed Cobb much more negatively. Michael Stern (journalist) Michael Stern (August 3, 1910 – April 7, 2009) was an American reporter, author and philanthropist. As a reporter during World War II he issued some of the first accounts from a liberated Rome , Italy in June 1944. He later worked in concert with Zachary Fisher to create

500-647: The episode. The Webb-hosted short film Red Nightmare (1962) had similarities to the GE True episode "The Last Day", although the former was presented as fantasy via a dream sequence . In February 1963, Webb succeeded William T. Orr as executive in charge of Warner Bros. Television , with Orr moving to the motion picture part of Warner Bros. At the beginning of June 1963, it was reported that GE True would not continue. Webb's role with Warner ended in December 1963. Reruns of GE True were later syndicated under

525-423: The highly rated Western series Bonanza on NBC . The show had a unique opening, of which there were at least two variants. Each opening featured a large "TRUE" sign, apparently several stories tall and shown at an oblique angle, initially in deep shadow. One variant began with Webb voicing "Good evening. Your host, General Electric ." with a large GE logo displayed next to the TRUE sign. Another variant lacked

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550-526: The largest circulation of the bunch." A prolific contributor to Playboy and other magazines, automobile writer Purdy ( Kings of the Road ), was the son of W. T. Purdy, the composer of " On, Wisconsin !". During the 1960s, True was edited by Douglas S. Kennedy. Robert Shea , co-author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy , was an associate editor from 1963 to 1965 before he moved on to Cavalier and Playboy . Charles N. Barnard and Mark Penzer edited True during

575-406: The title True . In addition to performers mentioned above, other notable persons who guest starred on GE True include: True (magazine) True , also known as True, The Man's Magazine , was published by Fawcett Publications from 1937 until 1974. Known as True, A Man's Magazine in the 1930s, it was labeled True, #1 Man's Magazine in the 1960s. Petersen Publishing took over with

600-446: Was hired by Bernarr Macfadden in 1933 at the rate of 3.5 cents per word as an investigative reporter for Macfadden's pulp magazines , such as True Detective Mysteries . Stern wrote under pseudonyms for other similar publications, earning at times half of Macfadden's rate per word. Stern worked for True magazine under an assumed name where he wrote a series of articles about former Nazi Party official Otto Strasser , who formed

625-512: Was later the star of the CBS crime drama Cannon . In an overview of the 1962 television season, Time noted: GE True aired at 9:30   p.m. Sundays, following The McCoys , a sitcom that had moved to CBS from ABC . GE True aired a half-hour later than a predecessor series, General Electric Theater , hosted by Ronald Reagan , which had aired at 9   p.m. from 1953 to 1962. Both The McCoys and GE True faced opposition from

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