Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FRANK B. R. SAHM...
These and thousands of other neatly packed facts appear in a little red book, The Encyclopedia of Sports,* published last week by Cleveland-born, 53-year-old Frank G. Menke. longtime Hearst sportswriter. To investigate the present and past of the world's pastimes, Sportswriter Menke devoted 20 years, poked his nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist...
...start in journalism at the turn of the Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...
...personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski's first public performance on his coming U. S. tour will be a broadcast over the NBC-Blue network.) About jazz he is more tolerant. Says he: "To be frank, I detest it. But it can be used judiciously." Secretary Sylwin Strakacz, a confirmed swing fan, has long tried to get Paderewski interested in boogie-woogie, but the upshot of his efforts has usually been nothing but argument, long and loud...
Cornell would seem to have the 50 yard dash and the 300 sewed up in the pocket of Jim Pender, but he will be pushed by Yalemen Bob Owen and Frank Curtis. Crimson bets, but not good ones tonight, are Bob Gammons and Joe Donnelly...