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Flapping Galoshes. Lorimer made fiction king, and fiction writers princes. There was something close to divine right in Irvin S. Cobb's tone when he remarked, "The uncanny soundness of its literary judgment is demonstrated firstly by the fact that more people on this planet read the magazine and like it than any other magazine. And secondly by the fact that it buys nearly everything I write." F. Scott Fitzgerald walked the Post's cork-floored editorial corridors, his galoshes flapping, selling the short stories that kept him living high between books...
...another upset, Dartmouth downed Columbia, 2-1, to tie the Lions for fourth place. Dick Moon and Dave Irvin scored the two Dartmouth goals as Frank Kodah tallied the only Columbia score...
...Irvin McDowell started the line-and quickly led his army into defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. He was followed by George McClellan, who had won the small but impressive victories that enabled West Virginia to break away from the Confederacy and become a separate state. While he did wonders in boosting morale after Bull Run and turning an undisciplined mob into an army, McClellan, only 34 at the time of his appointment, did little to justify the nickname of "young Napoleon." Excessively cautious to begin with, he was reduced to timidity by his primitive version...
...steel and Lucite colosseum-the $38 million Houston Astrodome. But he figured that the old Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could hardly have done the thing any place else...
...marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...