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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to have reached a circulation of 425,000. It now claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around the rousing escapades and shady epigrams of the characters of "Whiz Bang Farm" (supposedly at Robbinsdale, suburb of Minneapolis): Gus, the hired man, Olaf, Deacon Callahan, his daughter Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whiz-Banger | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

English High: McDermott l.e., Shane l.t., Agrillo l.g., Ryan c., Galenas r.g., Donahue r.t., Callahan, r.e., Maiocco q.b., Costello r.h., Kimmet l.h., Freno...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH HIGH WINS 14 TO 0 | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

...hundred-yard breast stroke--Won by Edward Moles (Princeton); second V. Manych (Princeton); third, R. Howlett (Northwestern); fourth, P. Callahan (Columbia). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE MARKS FALL AS NORTHWESTERN WINS SWIM MEET | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

First heat--won by Moles (Princeton), second, Goldsmith (Michigan); third, Callahan (Columbia). Time--2 min., 34 sec. (new national collegiate record). Second heat won by Howlett (Northwestern); second, Manych (Princeton); third, English (Syracuse). Time--2 min., 39 1-5 sec. Five fastest to qualify: Moles, Goldsmith, Callahan Howlett, Manych...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruddy, Moles, Set New Records In Trials of Intercollegiate Meet | 3/29/1930 | See Source »

...John Callahan, "Bishop of the Bowery," chaplain at Manhattan's Tombs Prison: "There were 44 saloons in the Bowery ten years ago. There isn't one today. Hundreds of men there were homeless and friendless. Today they' ve got homes, wives, children, bank accounts, automobiles, radios and life insurance. I hope and pray to God Almighty that the 18th Amendment will be kept in the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dry Rebuttals | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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