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...like the name Firehouse Five Plus Two. On the stand they wore red shirts, white suspenders and ancient leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...
...Pursuit of Bread. It was another part of the pattern of his life that he seldom had trouble getting jobs, seldom kept them very long. Between 1895 and 1897 he built up Ev'ry Month, which his brother Paul's publishers backed, to a circulation of 65,000, and he was an enterprising, ambitious editor of Delineator from 1907 to 1910, when an office scandal forced him out. In 1932, he helped Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill to launch the short-lived American Spectator (which the "tired" editors closed down...
...Sportsman. To most Wisconsin readers, free and vigorous Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you), 66, was the best guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial...
...officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...
...Theory. Old Man Mose was afraid that a sudden oversupply of consumer goods would produce serious economic dislocations. Typical was the plight of Softhearted John, the shark-mouthed grocer, whose goods no one would buy as long as they could have shmoos instead. "Ah'll be ruined ef ev'ry-body has everything they need!" he moaned. "Ah cain't make any money...