Word: owners
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During World War II, the monthly pared its literary content, beefed up its G.I. appeal with pulpy westerns and mysteries and a parade of cheesecake by Illustrators Varga and George Petty. Following the war, Gingrich and Owner David Smart disagreed over the magazine's direction and Gingrich left. "It became a sort of uptown Argosy," says Gingrich. By the time he returned in 1952, "the original advertisers had left, ad revenues were down, and the whole climate was such that those associated with its early phase refused to touch it with a ten-foot pole." Gingrich set it back...
...birthday on the Fourth of July. He says he was born in Liberia in 1842, the son of one Lindy Watkins. When he was only twelve, he was lured on board a slave ship commanded by a Captain Legree and taken to the U.S. He was sold, assumed his owner's name and was freed after the Civil War. Some of his story seems to check out: Watkins was a common name in Liberia in the 1840s, and slave-ship records actually list two slave-ship captains named Legree. Charlie also recalls a few words of what has been...
...raise a bit of extra revenue, New York State sells its list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...
After that, green pastures. At New York's Aqueduct Race Track last week, Owner Phipps announced that Buckpasser has been syndicated for stud duty and will retire next year to Lexington, Ky. Dividing the horse into 32 equal shares-each of which entitles its own er to one stud service per year-Phipps will retain 16 shares himself, has sold the remaining 16 to other breeders at $150,000 apiece. Total worth of the syndicate: $4,800,000, making Buckpasser, who has yet to father his first foal, the highest-priced stallion in history...
...Retailed for $11.95 along with training manuals, it is a tiny tuning fork, attached to a simple chain, that vibrates at 34,200 cycles per second-just above a dog's threshold of hearing. The sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted, and eventually, insists Miller, a Pavlovian association is created that makes the sofa itself a distraction. If the animal then proceeds...