Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Both magazines are published in Minneapolis...
...Eye Opener was founded 20 years ago as an iconoclastic review of British and Canadian politics by the late Robert Chambers ("Bob") Edwards, M. P. who resided in Calgary, Alta. Three years after Publisher Edwards' death in 1922, Eye Opener was bought by the late Harvey Fawcett who had broken away from the publishing business of his brothers Wilford and Roscoe. Brother Harvey changed Eye Opener to its present form, ran it's circulation up to a claimed 200,000. When he died in 1928 the magazine was bought by one Henry Myers who in turn sold...
Except for the name on the cover there is little to distinguish Eye Opener from Whiz Bang. Most jokes and pictures in the July and August issues are based on: 1) girl walking home from automobile ride; 2) burglar under old maid's bed; 3) husband surprising wife with male visitor; 4) iceman (plumber, repairman) and complaisant housewife...
Upon taking over Eye Opener, Mrs. Fawcett (who claims credit for having "planned the creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...
Other Catholic dioceses are not compelled to follow Rome's lead. But they will doubtless take heed, look within their churches with an equally critical eye, for Rome's regulation comes from one who is the vicar of Rome's Bishop, who is Pope Pius XI, vicar of Jesus Christ...