“My office door was always open to the magazine’s [ad] salesmen provided they came in on their knees.” — Herbert R. Mayes, famed editor of McCall's in his 1980 memoir, “The Magazine Maze.”
PS: There's a very smart piece in the April 19 New Yorker about the rivalry between that magazine's founder, Harold Ross, and Time-Fortune-Life-etc.'s Henry Luce, by the historian Jill Lepore.