Word: billye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In his Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to...
Upon taking over Eye Opener, Mrs. Fawcett (who claims credit for having "planned the creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it...
Returned to power after a brief eclipse (TIME, May 30 to June 20). Premier Eleutherios Venizelos has a new cheer with which to keep Greece's fickle Parliament loyal. Back in the U. S. after a visit to Athens, Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps last week revealed that he...
Died. Michael William ("Billy") Minsky, 41, ablest of Manhattan's four famed burlesque-producing Brothers Minsky; of a lung infection; in Brooklyn.
Each year Reporter Miller accompanies an expedition to the Mexican island Guadalupe to collect elephant seals for the zoo. This capture, though it sounds adventurous, does not excite him much. More exciting are the thousands of wild goats which infest the island, and two men who live there the year...