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...entire 1971 production by last month. Other major U.S. manufacturers-Murray Ohio, Huffman and AMF-are also having trouble keeping pace with runaway demand. Sales in many bicycle shops are racing 200% ahead of last year's level, and delivery dates for new merchandise are uncertain. Complains Gano Thomas of San Francisco's Nomad Cyclery: "The factories aren't making bicycles fast enough. If we order 100 bikes, we're lucky to get 25." Adds Henry Devilmorin, a Los Angeles two-wheeler dealer: "I can sell every bike I can get my hands...
Gorming has its full terminology. Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...
Maybe a Good One. The son of a railroad brakeman, Roy Howard was born in a tollgate house in Gano, Ohio, and was blooded in the newspaper business hawking papers as a boy in Indianapolis. He drifted from paper to paper before finally latching onto a job with the Cincinnati Post of the Scripps-McRae chain. Three years later he met the chain's guiding genius: E. W. Scripps. It was quite a meeting...
...Best from Gano. The anniversary dinner (sirloin steak, champagne) was no stuffy testimonial, but a newspaperman's blend of horseplay and affection. Toastmaster Dick Thornburg, editor of the Cincinnati Post, struck the keynote by calling Howard "the greatest newspaperman ever to come out of Gano, Ohio, population...
...Died. Gano Dunn, 82, international construction tycoon, longtime (since 1913) president of the J. G. White Engineering Corp., whose monuments include Pearl Harbor's naval oil base, the Muscle Shoals steam plant and a string of Latin American power dams; in Manhattan...