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Below, crowds applauded and sang Happy Birthday. Fowler, who had charged admission, gave him the proceeds-$415.-25. The professor was invigorated. Next day he walked across again...
...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
...Resort Owner Jack Fowler, son of the original owner and a brother of Novelist Gene Fowler, was horrified. He refused vehemently. The professor kept pleading. This year Fowler gave in, strung a new and shorter wire (320 ft. long and 125 ft. high) lower in the canyon...
...bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for the murder of her husband, in the old New York American. Fowler's story was republished last week in Star Reporters (Random House; $3), an anthology of 34 newspaper stories selected by Hearstling Ward Greene. Editor Greene polled...
...Populi. In Oklahoma City, Election Board Secretary Winfred P. Fowler got back an absentee ballot from a vacationing woman with a sweeping criticism: "I don't like the names of any of the men you sent me. Please mail me another list...