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Little Magazine, Grown Up

national review’s first issue, dated November 19, 1955, had a print order of 7,500, and was sent to a total of two thousand subscribers. How the members of this little band were signed up prior to the appearance of the magazine is lost to history. Bill Buckley claims he visited with at least two or three thousand people in order to raise the money for his new publishing venture, so most of them must have written checks for subscriptions as the less expensive of the two alternatives. To this day we receive mail from charter subscribers, people who have been with us since Volume I, Number 1; they were a hardy as well as a perspicacious lot.

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Little Magazine, Grown Up

national review’s first issue, dated November 19, 1955, had a print order of 7,500, and was sent to a total of two thousand subscribers. How the members of this little band were signed up prior to the appearance of the magazine is lost to history. Bill Buckley claims he visited with at least two or three thousand people in order to raise the money for his new publishing venture, so most of them must have written checks for subscriptions as the less expensive of the two alternatives. To this day we receive mail from charter subscribers, people who have been with us since Volume I, Number 1; they were a hardy as well as a perspicacious lot.