How Gay Were the Hardy Boys?

Today I was digging for some info on ‘carol burnett’ and came across the following paragraph:

He hated the Hardy Boys. But he wrote the Hardy Boys. Did their original author hide secret jokes inside the famous children’s detective books? “In his diaries, my father talks about having to write another of those cursed books,” the author’s son told one interviewer, “in order to earn another $100 to buy coal for the furnace.” (”It was very good money during the Depression,” Leslie McFarlane recalled in a radio interview forty years later. Both intervie

I tried several more searches on ‘carol burnett’ but after some time I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Memoir’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.