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...Guns. Founder Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
After a five-day stand here, the show will go on the road. A tentative itinerary includes Hartford, Connecticut; Stamford, Connecticut; New York; Philadelphia; Poughkeepsie, New York; Buffalo, New York, Rochester, New York; Syracuse, New York; and Springfield. The show will play in Providence, Rhode island; and Worcester. The Pudding may also get the show on television...
...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...
Robert was not an especially adventurous man; back in Buffalo he had been a hardworking, uninspired advertising salesman. As a soldier in Italy, he had weathered battle and he was deadly tired of the male odors and loud talk of the army barracks. More than anything else, he wanted to find a complaisant girl. For Lisa, the girl he found in Rome, it was a case of surrender or hunger. But Robert and Lisa soon found that love could never be simple, not even when it was sold by a desperate Italian girl to a lonely G.I. in a tawdry...
...Tigers shuffled him off to a higher farm at Buffalo, in the International League, where he played center eld as if he owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...