Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five...
...turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...Valpey's first disciples started spreading the single wing gospel yesterday. Chip Gannon and Nick Rodis, named last week as head coach and line coach at American International College in Springfield, opened spring practice there yesterday...
Thomas "Chip" Gannon, brightest star of the postwar Crimson elevens, was last night named head coach of football at American International College in Springfield. His friend and teammate Nick Rodis was named line coach and varsity basketball mentor. Both men will graduate in June...
Dark Warehouses and Foggy Waterfronts fail to retrieve this film. Possibly Paramount signed away the soul of "Alies Nick Beal' as part of Milland's contract. If so, good riddance...