Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is ever an editorial argument between them, it is settled at the breakfast table. In general, Bruce, the general manager, is king in corporate affairs, and Beatrice, the idea woman, is queen in the Journal's shiny test kitchens and its fashion incubators. When one is away, the other rules both roosts. There is plenty of give & take between them and their staffers, who are encouraged to speak their minds and often...
...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...
...curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...
...doctors have found another painkiller. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, Drs. W. M. Wilson and R. B. Hunter of Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...