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...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Somebody's Firing Blanks; Could Lampy Be the Target? | 3/5/1946 | See Source »

Memory Lane. In Louisville, Irvin Tucker of Madrid (Ky.), arrested for driving 35 m.p.h. in reverse, explained: "I get lost every time I turn a corner, so I decided to back out the way I came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Irvin S. (for Shrewsbury) Cobb, famed American humorist, whose last touch of humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No. 18 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Chapin, and she held her own with col leagues like Irvin S. Cobb. But small-town journalism was in her blood. She went back to Quitman, married the Free Press's Editor Royal Daniel,* took up the fight for tolerance and decency and such progressive steps as the removal of hitching-racks from Quitman's streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Edna | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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