Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personable, 38-year-old bachelor who keeps trim by riding and fencing, Ambassador Martinez Fraga is sure of gratifying attention from Washington debutantes. Aside from striving to preserve and perhaps to better Cuba's favorable sugar export status against the attacks of U. S. refiners, he can rest his diplomatic worries largely on the "generous and cordial co-operation lent by Your Excellency" for which he thanked Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt last week...
...Bachelor. The monthly was a 35? smartchart dedicated to unmarried males and called Bachelor. The size of Vogue, on shiny paper with two of its 84 pages in color, Bachelor appeared to bid for a clientele a social cut above Esquire's. Its use of photography and art indicated that Bachelor also aspired to the 90,000 public of the late Vanity Fair. Bachelor's opening editorial manifesto pictured it as "mirroring the varied interests of the discerning cosmopolite, in society as well as in business or profession, in politics as well as in sport ... in adventure...
...Believe It or Not'] Ripley is a Bachelor" was Bachelor's first featured interview. (Ripley's reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...
Founder of Bachelor was no bachelor but an intense, earnest lady of Circleville, Ohio. Publisher Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side...
...infer Mr. Roland Moncure [TIME, Feb. 22] is a bachelor. With TIME and LIFE arriving the same day all is quiet on the domestic front. But if they arrived on different days consider the strife between man and wife which you would thus create. So please desist from your plans for a separate distribution date for the two magazines...