Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three times Jean Spadea dissuaded her husband, for nine years an advertising salesman for Crowell's Woman's Home Companion, from launching a beauty magazine. She told him he had the publishing urge without a clear-cut editorial program. This week the Spadeas thought they had at last fused a sure-fire formula, optimistically put upon American News Co. stands 50,000 copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure...
...LIFE for Oct. 18, I find the following statement: "For the classical learning which has made him a sonorous orator and suave companion of the rich and great, the boss of C. I. O. can thank the course of reading laid out for him by the Iowa school-teacher whom he married...
...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood...
Less colorful than Publisher Shutts, 43-year-old John Knight has made his personality felt through life-long knowledge of editorial practices which click. His father, onetime Representative Charles Landon Knight, left the editorship of the Woman's Home Companion in 1903 to become part-owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal. During vacations from Akron public schools, John Knight served tedious apprenticeships in the mechanical and business departments of his father's paper. Son John was given the managing editorship in 1924, made publisher in 1928. In 1927 John Knight bought the Massillon, Ohio, Independent, is still...
...only two when his father, a doctor who was also a sports enthusiast, handed him a fishing rod, was not yet in his teens when he graduated to shotgun and rifle. On long hunting trips in northern Michigan he was his father's regular companion. In other respects, he was not so filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor; his mother, artistically inclined herself, wanted him to be a cellist and rigidly enforced hours of supposed practice in which non-musical Hemingway, by "just sitting thinking," now says he gained most impetus for his writing career...