Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Buckshot Putting aside his bone-handled .45 one day last week, Sheriff Tom Will ("Buckshot") Lane of Wharton County, Tex. reached for a typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale...
...presses were waiting; this week thousands of Texans in & out of Wharton County were eating up Sheriff Lane's rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5,800 Stinson Station Wagon that his admiring readers and constituents bought him last year. Undaunted, Sheriff Lane switched to a car, followed a 300-mile trail to the store where he seized the stolen machines. Like an accomplished serial writer, Buckshot hoped that by the next installment he might also seize...
...Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch the bay of distant hounds...
...readers might be getting bored with their comic-strip hero's invulnerability. Last week the syndicators decided to put Superman in a position where he may lose an occasional round. In November, Writer Whit Ellsworth and Artist Wayne Boring will marry him off to his longtime sweetheart, Lois Lane. In the normal course of time ("even Superman can't hurry some things") Lois will present him with a Superbaby. The new challenge: "Can Superman cope with modern man's most intimate problem-namely, marriage...
...Alumnus Lane Barton pushed the pace up to 36 for the final sprint, and almost succeeded in pulling back Tech, but his boat lacked the drive to overtake them before reaching the finish line at Long-fellow Bridge...