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...Hollywood, Motion Picture Research Project, headed by Dr. Leo Calvin Rosten and financed by a Carnegie Corp. grant, took offices on Hollywood Boulevard, to conduct a year-long survey of movies, moviemakers and movie society, findings to be published in book form by Harcourt, Brace some time...
Known to readers of the New Yorker for stories above his pen name of Leonard Q. Ross, Dr. Rosten is no stranger either to eccentric research or to Hollywood. In 1937 he published The Washington Correspondents, based on a similar survey subsidized by Social Science Research Council. In 1937 he worked as a screen writer for Major Pictures Corp., to acquire "the neurosis of the profession...
...Rosten book is not concerned with actual personalities but with the mores of the typical Washington correspondent, who, according to the author, is a 37-year-old family man who went into journalism by choice, is paid $5,987 a year to write, consciously or unconsciously, pretty much what his publisher wants to hear. This imaginary figure came from a city under 25,000, his father was a professional man, his education includes college training in liberal arts and now he feels the need of more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism...
...Rosten discovered that among daily newspapers the New York Times is best read by the Washington corps, considered most reliable, most desirable to work for. Hearstpapers and the Chicago Tribune are rated least fair and reliable. Among the weekly magazines, TIME and the Nation tallied first and second in readership...
...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...