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Leader Magazine was a weekly pictorial magazine published in the United Kingdom. The magazine was first owned by Pearson and then by Odhams. Later it became part of Hulton Press. The headquarters of the magazine was in London. The last issue of the weekly was published on 10 June 1950 and It was incorporated in Picture Post on 17 June 1950.

Contributors included Stephen Potter (editor), Kay Dick (literary critic), Anthony Carson, Orson Welles, Edgar Lustgarten, Lesley Blanch, Leslie Illingworth, Eric Partridge, cartoonist Vicky, Stephen King-Hall. Theatre critic John Barber was also sub-editor at one time. Another drama critic was Herbert Farjeon Other contributors included Susan Garth, Gordon Beckles, Charles Stuart, Laurie Lee, Barbara Cartland, Hayden Church, Walter Hingston, Ruth Miller, Geoffrey Sharp, Denzil Batchelor, Hugh Newman, Prof. D. W. Brogan, Eric Williams, John Maytime, Jean Paul Penez, and Robert Lantz. Kaye Webb was theatre correspondent from 1947-49.

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