Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bustling Publisher Funk, whose idea is unquestionably the most successful since the picture magazines', spent 30 years as the forgotten man of Funk & Wagnalls before he struck out for himself. While the Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...
Manhattan is a cluster of villages, and among the 1,000-odd newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...
...Robert E. Whelan (pronounced "Whalen"), 22, research worker in the New York World's Fair press department, was at liberty last week. Reason: incoming telephone calls to him were sometimes given to Grover A. Whalen. Clerk Whelan was asked to change his name, refused, was fired...
Other competitors in the field included Stanley O. Beren '41, Edward Gabriel Greenberg '41, Leon Samuel Lipson '41, John N. Mullor '40, James J. Pattee '41 and Robert Henry Ryan '41, all of whom earned their place in the finals as a result of two elimination round held during the past two weeks...
...appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault)--are skillfully portrayed. Only on one occasion, when the two principal women engage in that lush sentimentality so often employed to resolve a triangle plot, does the pace become slow; and the ending, tragic and impelling in the vein...