Word: newsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiger fans. Buck Newsom-also known as Bo-Bo and the Old Showboat-is the big cat's whiskers. At training camp last spring, he noisily announced: "The Yanks are a bunch of softies who have scared everybody except Old Bo-Bo half to death. All we need to win the pennant is some extra good pitching and I'll supply that...
...with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak right...
...them, WPA hired John Dimmock Newsom, 46, who was born in Shanghai, brought up in France, went to Cambridge, anthropologized in Melanesia, resided in Morocco. In 1938 he became State director of the Writers' Project in Michigan. Last year he had returned to his Maryland farm when he was asked if he would try to make WPA's writers write. Soon he was doing it. Says he with an efficient snap in his voice: "This is a production unit, and it's work that counts. I've never been for art for art's sake...
...year Director Newsom has been ruling the writers, 28 State Guide Books have been published. This week even the belated Maryland Guide appeared, with sketches of Marylanders Barbara Fritchie and Wallis Warfield. With the 17 that came out under Alsberg, that leaves only three States undescribed...
...Director Newsom is given credit for ramming through the State Guide Books. Ex-Director Alsberg is credited with the plan whereby established publishing houses bring them out. Viking Press has published nine. Oxford University Press and Hastings House are each publishers of seven. Houghton Mifflin published the six New England Guides, soured a little when Massachusettsians raised hob about the amount of space given to Sacco and Vanzetti. Publishers have not made much money out of the Guide Books, but report a steady sale...