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...Iowa-born, they met as students at the University of Iowa, were married in New York in 1923, and embarked on careers in journalism and writing. Man's Estate, a play they wrote together, ran 56 performances on Broadway in 1929-and paid for their 120-acre farm, Bedensbrook, near Hopewell, NJ. In 1934 Bruce Gould, who had already sold eight stories to the Saturday Evening Post, one of the magazines printed by Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia, joined the Post as an associate editor. The following year Post Editor (and Curtis Chairman) George Horace Lorimer offered the Goulds...
...Front Career. The Goulds' offices are in Philadelphia (where Bruce has the bigger office) and Manhattan's RKO Building (where hers is bigger and chintzier). They split their week between New York, Philadelphia and "Bedensbrook," their 120-acre farm near Princeton, N.J., where the rooms are much more casual than the ones shown on Journal decorating pages...
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