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...Wages of Sin. Cleanliness is a latter-day worry of Confessions' publishers, the four sons of "Captain Billy" Fawcett. Since building the family fortune on the smokehouse smut of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, they have made crime pay (Daring Detective, Startling Detective, Dynamic Detective), profited from pleasing the star-struck (Movie Story, Motion Picture), discovered that respectability is the most...
...years bulbous, balding Alex L. Hillman has successfully competed with Macfadden and Fawcett in the lucrative magazine fields of true confessions (Real Story, Real Confessions, Real Romances) , crime (Crime Detective, Real Detective, Crime Confessions) and comics. A onetime book publisher, Alex Hillman has lately pined for prestige...
...popular sensation during the booming 1920s was Colonel Percy Fawcett, English explorer who, with his son Jack, tried to find "the Lost Atlantis" in the Brazilian wilderness. They disappeared. Recently Brazilian reporter Edmar Morel returned to civilization with a ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was Jack Fawcett's son by a Kurikuro Indian woman. Last week a picture of Morel and Dulipé (see cut) reached the U.S. As photographed, Dulipé has all the characteristics of an albino, a not uncommon freak among South American Indians...
...Fawcett's turn to do some sleuthing. A long-distance telephone call was traced to Larchmont, N.Y. Louisville police traced his laundry marks to Larchmont also, got his real name...
Most amused publisher was Fawcett Publications. Said its house organ: "We suggest that Wiegers prepare for his next little game of I-spy by learning how to handle mechanical gadgets. Mechanix Illustrated, 10 cents at all newsstands, or Handy Man's Home Manual, 50 cents (adv.), might be helpful...