Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veterans of Future Wars as yellow, Mr. Van Zandt was accused of being the "tool of Moscow" in his unpatriotic efforts to discredit America's future soldiers. Professional patriots belong to the lowest intellectual group in the country, and it should not be hard to beat them with equal success in future encounters...
...wish to do something toward the building of my church. I am told that Roman Catholics all over the country are very favorably disposed toward your magazine because of the fair manner in which you treat their religious news. Please accept my very best wishes for the continued success of your very interesting and valuable publication. May God bless you and the staff of TIME...
Back of this metamorphosis from indigent irregularity to smart success lay a story of shrewd publishing enterprise. In 1932 Nelson Doubleday of the house of Doubleday, Doran groaned, in anguish when he surveyed the unbalanced balance sheets of The American Home and its stylish cousin, Country Life. Together the magazines were losing him nearly $60,000 a month, and of this the greater share was chargeable to The American Home, 10? home-furnishing monthly founded...
...edit The American Home, Mr. Eaton shrewdly selected blonde, energetic young Mrs. Jean Austin, able Doubleday, Doran underling. Mrs. Austin gave The American Home the editorial slant which shot it to success...
Born in New Rochelle, N. Y. 40 years ago, lanky Robert Sherwood went to War with the Black Watch, returned to Harvard, where his wounds and gassing did not prevent him from editing the Lampoon with such success that Vanity Fair hired him as co-editor with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. Hopeful contributors to Life recall the macabre, unsmiling laugh, the generous good nature with which from 1920 to 1928 Editor Sherwood personally received their effusions. When he wrote The Road to Rome, Sherwood quit journalism for good. He published in Variety last week a notice that Harry...