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...Kentucky tourist attraction, Big Red outdrew Mammoth Cave. Two million people visited Faraway Farm just to see him. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lexington. On his birthdays, he was given elaborate cakes with carrot candles. Stablehands reportedly did a brisk business selling hairs out of his tail to superstitious horse-players. For Man o' War was the greatest of all U.S. race horses...
...Beaverbrook's flamboyant Express at 29. In his first year, 1933, he raised the circulation 160,000, made the Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited London recently, the headline was four ink blots...
Robert, C. Fisher '51 of Stoughton Hall and Kansas City was appointed literary editor, David C. Brisk of Weld Hall and New York City sports editor, and Jefferson Watkins of Brooklyn, Feature editor...
...Brisk! Lively! Merry and bright! Allegro...
...York Herald Tribune's Joe Alsop contributed a brisk piece on U.S. foreign policy; Christopher Isherwood drew an amusing portrait of Los Angeles. But to the average U.S. reader, at least, most of the 20 bylines in the 160-page, all-American number were unknown.They belonged to the rarefied atmosphere of the little magazines and literary groups to which Connolly gravitated on a trip to the U.S. last winter. Horizon's 3,300 American readers would find the picture of the U.S. disappointingly familiar. H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Erskine Caldwell et al. had painted most...