Reminiscences of Bruce and Beatrice Gould, 1976

Biographical Note

Editors; interviewees are married

Scope and Contents

Both describe family backgrounds, childhoods and meeting at State University of Iowa in 1920s; she discusses teaching, newspaper work, short story writing; he discusses General Film Co., college humor magazine, newspaper reporting, Army Air Service 1918-19, playwriting and reviewing, associate editorship of SATURDAY EVENING POST; marriage, 1923; New York scene in 1920s; Prohibition; joint editors of LADIES HOME JOURNAL, 1935-1962; staff and format, health campaigns, reader polls, important articles, series, literary pieces; difficulties and decline of Curtis Publishing Company; impressions of George Horace Lorimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, others

Subjects

• Editors--Interviews.
• Gibson, Mary Bass, interviewer.
• Gould, Beatric Blackmar, interviewee.
• Gould, Beatrice Blackmar--Interviews.
• Gould, Bruce--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Magazine design.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Women's periodicals.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980