Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time before Editor Hadden's death, Editor Luce had been exploring new types of business stories-to improve TIME'S "Business & Finance" section. He found a field so vast and fertile it could produce many stories not appropriate for TIME'S limited space. Hence, in 1930, FORTUNE was founded. Again, a few years later, several years of experiment in improving TIME'S and FORTUNE'S illustrations led to the conclusion that pictures could lend point to words and words to pictures but one had to be dominant...
These two by-products of TIME might well have swamped Editor-Publisher Luce had he not, soon after Hadden's death, deputized the business management to Roy E. Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager.* To free himself, when necessary, from routine editorial duties, he also created the post of managing editor and gave it to John S. Martin, a contributing editor of TIME'S first issue. Later, the various TIME Inc. publications were made autonomous and given publishers to look after their individual affairs. Two former managing editors of FORTUNE, Ralph...
...deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin Zoo's monster, many zoos have claimed that honor for their gorillas-but he is one of the most vindictive...
...this month showed few that were definitely bad, it also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
...Dance of Death-Helen McCloy-Morrow ($2). The story of a body, uncannily resembling a celebrated debutante, found in a snowdrift, solved by a psychiatrist whose medical and psychological analyses make more sense than scientific details usually do in detective fiction...