Word: fawcetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isadore N. Rosenberg 1M, Boston; Christopher T. Bever 1M, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irving M. London 2M, Malden; George S. Kurland 1M, Dorchester; Richard C. Webster Jr. 2M, Glen Arm, Md.; Don W. Fawcett 3M, West Branch, Ia; and James B. Tobias '41, Fremont...
Nothing much happened, so one day last fortnight the Mayor acted. He sent out 40 Department of Sanitation garbage trucks to round up copies of a new magazine titled Man to Man, published by Country Press, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., whose prosperous publishing business was founded on the late Captain Billy Fawcett's rowdy Whiz Bang (TIME...
Three eminent Manhattan humorists-James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Stanley Walker-turned out to be contributors to Man to Man. They had once sold some pieces (sample title: How to Poker) to a naughty little journal called For Men formerly published by Country Press. Fawcett editors had resurrected their pieces from the files...
...Captain Wilford Hamilton Fawcett came back from the war. He was broke. In Minneapolis, where he had once been a police reporter for the Tribune, Captain Billy opened a tavern for ex-soldiers and sailors, called it the Army & Navy Club. When a squad of prohibition-enforcement officers raided the club, put a padlock on the door, Captain Billy went to work in a roadhouse...
...profits Captain Billy started True Confessions, Screen Play, Modern Mechanix, Smokehouse Monthly, For Men, Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, various others. But Whiz Bang was his darling. Wherever he went while Whiz Bang lasted Captain Billy picked up ribald jokes, sent them back with his monthly editorial, Drippings from the Fawcett...