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...Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps for a few months, "Jesus" is given what is supposed to be a free hand. Then Editor Ross is assailed by doubts. Soon he takes issue with every decision that "Jesus" makes, and presently his hostility becomes a deep loathing...
...Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script, all of them conceived and impersonated by Gosden and Correll...
...returned to the Naval Academy to teach chemistry and physics. He also became head football coach, and the brains and aggressiveness which marked him as a fast, rangy end helped "sink" the Army again. 6-0. For his kindness to luckless midshipmen about to be "bilged." the class of 1909 dedicated its year book to him. His consideration was only natural, since Joseph Reeves can think of no more unhappy fate than not being in the Navy...
...young man was met by a rather forceful fellow at the gate of Memorial Hall after registering in September. After much talking the luckless first year man agreed to sign a contract to have forty pieces pressed during the year. Not for a while did he realize his mistake. Then he discovered that having only one suit to his name, he would be unable to sent it out. He didn't dare try out his pink pajamas on Professor Merriman, having heard of the latter's strict ideas about comportment...
...again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin's orders as the patriotic rallying points of luckless Russians who are being forced to colonize Red Far East open spaces as buffers to Japan (TIME...