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...show-business paper in the U.S., last week went into show business itself. The celebrated weekly put on a weekly radio show for Philco (Blue Network, Sun., 6-7 p.m., E.W.T.). Just why the shrewd, slangy journal should break into radio was candidly explained by its grizzled, punchy editor, Abel ("Hiya, sonny boy!") Green: "For cash consideration, filthy lucre, publicity. For the durable function of bringing to the air what's good in all branches of show business-a sort of personality Crossley...
...solemnly notes the first fight on record: Cain v. Abel...
Pictures were used in the 1700s for the same reason that they are used today: to catch the eye of the reader and lure him into reading the ad. At first their use was infrequent, because they were too expensive. But in the early 1800s one Abel Bowen, engraver, produced a batch of stock woodcuts, laid them out for cheap sale to magazines, newspapers...
...Abel Bowen's best, laid out in aid of a Philadelphia hair "manufactory" (wigs, transformations, etc.), was a woodcut of a forbidding female whose obviously enormous bust was well upholstered in yards of frills, and on whose head hair was heaped in a grotesque, kinky pile...
...what his men all said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were his raids that General Sherman once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury." Forrest never was taken. At the war's end he weighed a plan...