Editing Collier's (section)

==Later years==
At the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1941 with William L. Chenery as editor,<ref>Letter to [[Eric de Bisschop]], October 10, 1941 (Archives diplomatiques, Nantes)</ref> ''Collier's'' readership reached 2.5 million. In the October 14, 1944, issue, the magazine published one of the first articles about concentration camps. It was [[Jan Karski]]'s "Polish Death Camp," a harrowing account of his visit to [[Belzec extermination camp|Belzec]]. The now problematic title is explored in [["Polish death camp" controversy|"Polish death camp controversy"]], under the heading "Use and Reactions". Karski's book ''Story of a Secret State'', which included the ''Collier's'' excerpt, was published later that year by [[Houghton Mifflin]]. It became a [[Book of the Month Club]] selection, and bestseller with 400,000 copies sold in 1944-45. The ''Collier's'' selection was reprinted in Robert H. Abzug's ''America Views the Holocaust: 1933-1945'' (Palgrave, 1999).

''Collier's'' had a circulation of 2,846,052 when Walter Davenport took over as editor in 1946, but the magazine began to lose readers during the post-World War II years. ''Collier's'' published a regular men's fashion feature contributed by ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' co-founder [[Henry L. Jackson]] and also published long-awaited images from the 200-inch (5.08 m) [[Hale Telescope]]'s [[first light (astronomy)|first light]] in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/01/26/january-26-60th-anniversary-of-hale-telescope-first-light/ |title=January 26: 60th Anniversary of Hale Telescope "First Light" |date=January 26, 2009 |publisher=365daysofastronomy.org |access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>  In the early 1950s, ''Collier's'' ran a groundbreaking series of science-based articles speculating on space flight, ''[[Man Will Conquer Space Soon!]]'', which prompted the general public to seriously consider the possibility of a trip to the moon, with the percentage of Americans who believed a crewed lunar trip could happen within 50 years changing from 15% to 38% by 1955.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ53HRR5lUQC&q=%22collier%27s+magazine%22&pg=PA36 |title=Collins, Martin J. ''After Sputnik'', HarperCollins, 2007 |date=March 22, 2011 |isbn=9780062043610 |access-date=February 12, 2018|last1=Collins |first1=Martin }}</ref>

In 1951, an entire issue described the events and outcome of a hypothetical war between the United States and the Soviet Union, entitled ''[[Preview of the War We Do Not Want]]''. ''Collier's'' changed from a weekly to a biweekly in August 1953, but it continued to lose money. In 1954, [[John O'Hara]] became a columnist with his "Appointment with O'Hara" column.

The magazine ceased publication with the issue for the week ending January 4, 1957.<ref>[http://www.abandonedonline.net/industry/crowell-publishing-company/ Crowell-Collier Publishing Company] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104084629/http://www.abandonedonline.net/industry/crowell-publishing-company/ |date=November 4, 2013 }}, Abandoned. Retrieved October 16, 2013.</ref> [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace of Monaco]] was featured on the cover, pregnant with her first child [[Caroline, Princess of Hanover|Caroline]].