Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ingersoll and Eric Hodgins, became respectively the publishers of TIME and FORTUNE; Roy E. Larsen became publisher of LIFE. For himself Luce still cherishes, as he and Brit Hadden did from the beginning, no title or occupation more than that of Editor of TIME...
These two by-products of TIME might well have swamped Editor-Publisher Luce had he not, soon after Hadden's death, deputized the business management to Roy E. Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager.* To free himself, when necessary, from routine editorial duties, he also created the post of managing editor and gave it to John S. Martin, a contributing editor of TIME'S first issue. Later, the various TIME Inc. publications were made autonomous and given publishers to look after their individual affairs. Two former managing editors of FORTUNE, Ralph...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...ingratitude.* But even Shakespearean titles sometimes lack the necessary box-office smash to put across a photoplay that has no top-ranking box-office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934) to guarantee any motion picture a flying box-office start...
...Walt Disney's first feature-length animated cartoon is (1 Brother Roy, 2 Charlie McCarthy, 3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 4 Jack the Giant Killer, 5 Mary and Her Snow-White Lamb...