Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
Last week, suntanned John Gould was one of the country's busiest country editors. He started two new radio programs, turned out the editorials for the Enterprise and a down-on-the-farm column for the Christian Science Monitor, worked on a new book, kept up with his 100-acre farm (he is his own hired hand) and between chores drove over to Northeast Harbor to address the Maine Press Association...
...approach has been profitable: the Enterprise was down to 268 subscribers when Gould bought it in 1945. Boston-born and Maine-reared, he knew the town from childhood summers on his grandfather's farm on nearby Lisbon Ridge. When he grew up he bought the farm, worked as an all-round newsman on the Brunswick Record. When its publisher died, a banker friend suggested that he take over the Lisbon weekly. Gould proposed a partnership to Printer J. W. ("Jess") Goud (rhymes with food), who seemed, after the Maine fashion, completely uninterested. Next morning Goud showed up with...
Million-Dollar Baby. Gimbels reported that Baby Sparkle Plenty, a doll version of one of Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...
...House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member . . . that hors d'oeuvres is described as 'an appetizing savoury of vegetables, fish, etc., served before the first course'. . . . It would not be easy to print this shortly and concisely on the menu...