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A long, two-fisted, crusading record has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Back in 1883, four years after the late, great Joseph Pulitzer created it, Managing Editor John A. Cockerill shot and killed a man who called the Post-Dispatch a gang of blackmailers. Under famed Managing Editor Oliver Kirby...
Its author was a wealthy, two-fisted Dallas wildcatter named Chester Allen ("Chet") Everts, who ran away from home at the age of u and made his pile in the oil fields. Wall Streeters, who know what it is to be spanked for selling strawberries without showing the whole basket...
In Sarawak, a rich tropical land of rubber, oil, antimony, edible birds' nests and rhinoceroses, it has long been recognized that a two-fisted male ruler was needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles'...
Life is no picnic in any military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes...
For the first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington.