"Gloria Stavers sits high above Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, if not the world. Her gig is editing a fan magazine for teenage girls. Small potatoes? Not quite. For through the mesmeric medium that is Sixteen, Gloria Euphoria is able to open and shut the portals of the Top Twenty as if it were her own private filing cabinet.
It's a matter of arithmetic. Seventy-five percent of all singles and forty-five percent of all LPs are bought by girls between the ages of twelve and seventeen. Sixteen Magazine has a paid circulation of one million teenyboppers and four million friends read for free. And so when EYE Magazine got around to listing the Makers and Breakers, they included Bill Graham as well as Murray the K, but Gloria Stavers was first on the list. God and Gloria would have it no other way."
- by Michael Horowitz
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