From Sputnik To Apollo: Space In New Scientist

B. Dixon. (1992), JBIS, 45, pp.449-450

Refcode: 1992.45.449

Abstract:

Those were the words with which a company secretary, Collin Shepherd, began a report to his Board on 5 August, 1957. The company was Harrison, Raison & Co., which had been formed the previous year to launch what was then called The New Scientist. The magazine established by Maxwell Raison (father of Timothy Raison, subsequently editor of New Society and later Minister for Overseas Development) and his Suffolk neighbour, Nicholas Harrison, had bad a promising start. Now it was in serious trouble.