Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a radio editor [the New York Times's Jack Gould-TIME, March 4] chucks pulp-writing to the wolves, I for one must rise and protest in the name of all my kind...
...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...
...prove that he could "compose" 50 songs in one twelve-hour day. He turned up in the studio of San Antonio's Station WOAI at 8 a.m., in a white Stetson, a green-and-yellow embroidered shirt, and hand-tooled boots. He brought with him a stack of pulp magazines, for inspiration. To make it look harder, he had a policeman chain him to a piano...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...
...landing on the Oregonian for his second copydesk stretch, he got $45 a week, wrote Westerns for the pulp market on the side. After twelve years he was publisher, already deep in the job of restyling the stodgy Oregonian, pepping it up for a successful circulation battle with the Oregon Journal...