Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John ("Jack") Burke, 67, famed marathon fighter of the '90s; of injuries apparently suffered in traffic; in Plainfield, N.J. Burke and Andy Bowen fought the longest glove battle on record, in New Orleans in 1893: no rounds. The two battered each other for seven hours and 19 minutes to a draw...
...huge grapefruit-yellow sun, a topographical panorama showed visitors what a beautiful place Los Angeles County had been before the Angelence had got there. Other panoramas depicted the idyllic cattle and sheep ranches of a century and more ago, the land and oil booms of the 1880s and '90s, the leaning fences and signboards of the 19205. The 1941 display pictured children playing in congested streets, oil wells blossoming on front lawns. A weatherbeaten shack, transplanted whole from a Los Angeles slum, stood accusingly before a backdrop of Los Angeles' skyscraping city hall...
...world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh of The Big Foxes and provided a scathing picture of The Unamerican...
...90s marked Harper's peak. In 1925, with circulation down to 75,000, it changed format, dropped illustrations, printed less fiction, more articles dealing with ideas, trends, U.S. mores. Now its circulation is 106,800 and Editor Allen sees no reason "why a magazine with the general purposes and standards of Harper's shouldn't have a circulation of 15,000 or 300,000, depending on how interesting...
...dewy youth passed and Alfred approached 60, he began thinking of foreign parts again. In the early '90s he went to Malaya to edit a paper, moved on to Japan to become European editor of Tokyo's Japan Times. In 1899, just after the beginning of Philippine-U.S. hostilities, Alfred arrived in Manila. Filipinos arrested the ambitious newshawk of 71 as a spy, left him bound and stripped in the jungle to be slowly devoured by flies. U.S. troops rescued him. Later he went to the U.S., worked on a San Francisco paper...