Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front page "Maisie" was still trying to get "Howard"' to call the Bayswater number; Old Boys were being besought by their headmasters to contribute a little something to St. Swiffen's; land was going begging in South Africa. But see here, what was this? The masthead which had remained unchanged for the past 144 years was all different. Instead of Gothic lettering it was set up in block lettering. And there were no horizontal lines enclosing the date below it. The titular coat of arms was not the same. And to cap that, the type face...
...contents revealed touches of bawdry, sexy double-entendres, shady epigrams, scatological jokes and the like which immediately reminded knowing readers of Captain Billy's Whiz Batig, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly. There, in fact, was a true clue to Hooey's publisher, listed in the masthead as Popular Magazines Inc., of Louisville, Ky. Popular Magazines Inc. is controlled by Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett and his brother Roscoe (TIME...
...become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its 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...
...mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers blowing in the breeze, for more than an hour. In the last race of the week, Enterprise was the only contender to finish within the time limit, again proving her ability to move without wind...
Dangerous Paradise (Paramount). In the masthead of this film the producers announce that it is "based on incidents from a novel by Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the novel was the famous Victory. As a matter of fact the picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved...