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...unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful magazine of regional appeal in the Northwest. It was started in 1927 chiefly as a hobby, and partly because Brother Roscoe Fawcett was onetime state golf champion. Whiz Bang had competition of a sort in the older, equally unchaste Jim Jam Jems. When, in 1928, Jim Jam Jems' Editor Sam Clark attacked him in his magazine, Captain Billy bought him out. There after came Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling...
...road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents and in which all records since the Berlin system of point scoring was introduced in 1916 had been broken, Brocardo & Georgetti kept...
...second last book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
...industry. Its guaranteed circulation of 12,500 is frequently exceeded by 50% or 75% if weather is fair on Monday, when legions of urchins rush forth with bundles of the week's edition, leaping from running board to running board of cabs in the city's traffic jam. In 1928 Taxi Weekly gave birth to a national edition, addressed to all U. S. taxicab companies, now reaching 4,000 readers...
...Police from the State's Attorney's office raided the Biltmore Athletic Club. Next day Lingle told an official: "That raid put me in a fine jam. I told these fellows to go ahead and run. Of course, I didn't suppose they were going to go like a house afire." That was three days before the murder...