Word: fawcetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, have been made. Only reasonable was it also that such sales should arouse the envy of magazine publishers. In the past fortnight two veteran publishers from opposite poles invaded the psychoanalytical & adult education field. One was the defunct Whiz-Bang's Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, the other the defunct Literary Digest's Wilfred John Funk...
...also produce Your Life. To launch the new monthly, Mr. Funk formed Kingsway Press Inc., Scarsdale, N. Y., with part of the reported $200.000 proceeds from the sale of Literary Digest, made Brother-in-Law Bert C. Miller president. Vice president is Douglas E. Lurton. onetime supervising editor for Fawcett Publications, and managing editor of Literary Digest during its last year. Edited by Douglas Lurton, Your Life is a handbook of inspirational prescriptions for the sick-in-heart, is neatly cataloged to cover Life. Health, Love. Fortune, Charm. Children, Conversation and Words. Sample suggestions...
...Photo-Facts Publisher Fawcett offers little advice, much fact illustrated in encyclopedia fashion. "Jumping at conclusions," says Mr. Fawcett's "pocketbook of knowledge," "is all right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie...
Died. Roscoe Fawcett, 49, Minneapolis sportsman, brother and publishing partner of Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett (Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly, Hooey); in Rochester, Minn...
...meter dash. First heat--Won by F. Goodhue '37, (6 yds.); second, R. P. Randall '39, (6 yds.). Time--11 3/3 sees. Second heat--Won by R. B. Fawcett '38, (6 yds.); second, G. Hay '38, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Third heat--Won by W. H. Schmidt '37, (scratch); second, J. C. Dounelly '39, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Fourth heat--Won by R. S. Brookings 1L., (4 yds.); second, T. H. Calhoun '39, (5 yds.). Time--12 sees. Fifth heat--Won by D. P. Coffin '38, (5 yds.), second, F. Garrison...