Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careers which reached their tragic peak in the fateful year 1929, none had been more exciting than Ray Long's. A poor boy from a small town in Indiana, he had quickly made his mark in the newspaper business as "boy editor" of the Cincinnati Post and Cleveland Press. Then he splashed brilliantly into the fiction magazine field, running through the spectrum of Red Book, Bine Book, Green Book. On Armistice Day 1918, William Randolph Hearst succeeded, after several years' dickering, in hiring Editor Long for his Cosmopolitan. In the eleven years that followed. Editor Long made...
Three years before, Publisher Hearst had made Ray Long boss of Hearst's International Magazine Co. Two years later, Ray Long announced his retirement from the Hearst organization. Friends, who had often heard tense, febrile Editor Long say that the only thing on earth he feared was "going stale," guessed that 13 years in one job had begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps...
...electric personality given to quick cigarets and quicker decisions. From Columbia he moved to Fox, from Fox to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Then he went back to the publishing business for a while, becoming editor of Photoplay, and recently "Western editor" of Liberty. The unhappy, pouched eyes of Ray Long grew unhappier. Panic-stricken, the man who once could command $100,000 a year and almost any editor's chair found himself reduced, at 57, to pick-up jobs from old friends and beneficiaries...
Your account of Ray Noble, TIME, June 10, is a brief but meaty supplement to the Duke Ellington article which appeared in FORTUNE in August 1933. However, I regret your continued criticism of Paul Whiteman...
...popular" musician takes his gauge from his phonograph records. At Manhattan's smart Gramophone Shop Ray Noble sells the best. At Macy's his only competitors are Guy Lombardo and the Casa Lomas...