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Branching out from the field of six-gun and college-gridiron thrillers, Street & Smith also launched such pulps as Top Notch and Ainslee's, made sales boom with the works of the firm's byliners, who included Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Conan Doyle and Bret Harte. Covers came from such artists as Norman Rockwell, James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy...
...editors' aim was to sweep the modern world "with the same searching gaze which the Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
American Novels (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp...
...literary interests are as broad as those of a good-sized college faculty. He has written fiction, biography (Bret Harte), popular meteorology (Storm), a fascinating treatise on U.S. place names (Names on the Land). His latest book is a rambling, unconventional history of the Life & Times...