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Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...
Last week 69-year-old Griffith Ellis sold his interest in the magazine he had edited so consistently for 40 years, went to Arizona for a vacation. Purchaser was his business manager, Elmer Presley Grierson, whom he had been schooling to succeed him since a few months after Grierson graduated from University of Michigan in 1913. Like his mentor, Publisher Grierson is devoted to boys, likes them redblooded. His son, John, is just...
...crooners, swing bands and the intricate maneuvers of his 90-piece marching band. Most of all they liked the latest Marshall innovation: a rah-rah song, Hail to the Redskins, with music by Barnee Breeskin, band leader at the swank Shoreham Hotel, and words by one-time Cinemactress Corinne Griffith (Declasse, The Lady in Ermine), wife of Big Chief Marshall. The nine other owners of big-league professional teams, well aware that the Redskins have attracted the largest crowds (440,000 in 13 games) this season, are considering rah-rah songs for next year...
...know that every time (now this is important) the Redskins score a touchdown . . . George [Marshall] and his wife, the former Corinne Griffith, stand up ... and he kisses her on the cheek...
...freshman meet the starters will be: Bob Jayu, who was elected captain after last week's meet, Sopka, Dias, Robbins, Young, Fenn, McElligot, Griffith, Bradley, and Knowlton...