Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when he fired a shot over the postman's head to scare...
Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...
After Willie's death Editor Ellis made up an imaginary boy to edit his magazine for: Skeeter Bennet, a high-school sophomore 15½ years old, five feet four inches tall, weight 114 pounds. With 285,000 Skeeters reading The American Boy Editor Ellis bought out Youth's Companion...
...American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd...
...listen when their schoolmates tune in Adolf Hitler's broadcasts to the U. S. One little girl at Manumit could not be persuaded to take off her underwear when she went to bed, had nightmares in which she dreamed that German storm troopers broke into her room. A boy constantly drew pictures of machine guns, tanks, people shooting Hitler...