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