Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interchanging reality and fantasy must surely be one of the fundamental rights of childhood. Perhaps the explanation is that at 38, Engman is too young to remember the golden age of radio during the '30s when a whole generation of Americans grew up sending away for Little Orphan Annie's secret-society badges, Tom Mix's fabulous "mirror ring" (without turning his head, the wearer could see if he was being tracked), and Jack Armstrong's whistle ring, which sounded like a tiny siren and came with its own secret code...
...meeting by linking arms and singing one of the most famous commercials-the one that accompanied Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy: "Won't you buy Wheaties, the best breakfast food in the land! Won't you try Wheaties ..." The melody lingers on, but Jack-and Little Orphan Annie and Buck Rogers-are only memories. Recordings of their series have disappeared and, radio fans fear, are probably lost forever...
...Babe was a simple man fond of his creature comforts, liquor, women and fancy cars. He rose from humble origins (although not an orphan, he was placed in an institution for orphans by his father) to be more popular than the President of the United States. At the height of his success and his salary, reporters pointed out to the Bambino that at $80,000 a year, he was making more than President Hoover ($75,000). "What the hell," Ruth said, "I had a better year than he did last year...
...Lateiner, who, after 45 years, still finds the chase for facts "very exciting." Some of the most interesting challenges are the handful of queries that cannot be answered quickly. Lateiner spent half a day in 1961 discovering that the line "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," quoted by President Kennedy, comes from the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Minister. Only in 1968 did Bartlett's Familiar Quotations get around to listing...
...Mystery, featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, proprietors of the A-1 Detective Agency-"No job too tough, no mystery too baffling." Superman was brought on with the sound of the bullet he could outspeed and of the locomotive he could overpower. Terry and the Pirates, Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie were liberated from the frozen postures of the comic strip. Captain Midnight; Tom Mix; Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, among others, became the aural equivalents of the dime novel and the magazine serial...