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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Willie to Skeeter to John | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Willie to Skeeter to John | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Powwow | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Evie's Apples | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RUNNERS MEET HOLY CROSS TOMORROW | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

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