Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Lloyd) is the first picture manufactured by its star since 1932. Unlike its predecessors, it contains no nerve-wracking escapes from railroad trains, no breathless danglings from skyscraper ledges. It is "straight" comedy about the son of a Chinese missionary and the difficulties he encounters when he returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...likes to know what becomes of prodigies, Newsman Tom Pettey of the New York Herald Tribune last week set out to find this wonder-child of the last decade. He rediscovered her in a small suburban apartment. Last year she, aged 20, married an ice cream company employe named Harold S. Leach. He works nights and she works days, as cashier for Chevrolet at the Manhattan General Motors Building...
...husband is perfect! I call him 'honey,' but never Harold unless I'm mad. Where did I meet him? Well, I've been on my own since I got out of school, for mother travels a lot. I was living in a boarding house and [Harold] came along. In a couple of weeks we were engaged and in two months we were married. . . . I'm the only child prodigy Harold ever knew, so, of course, he thinks child prodigies are swell. He has no literary background, but he doesn't mind mine...
From the editorial success of the Stars & Stripes Harold Ross had carried home the outlines of a formula for a magazine to be written and edited strictly for one class of readers. Its blood and bone was to be delicate but honest humor and satire, written up to the standards of its editors, deliberately unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play...
...Harold Ross still is The New Yorker. His judgment of values, of importance, timeliness, effectiveness, is exceptional to the point of brilliance. For all his strange record with fellow human beings, those who are nearest to him have great loyalty to him. . . . Without him the magazine might easily disintegrate even today...