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Wrhen the votes were counted Cicero, with Scarface Al in jail, had gone Democratic. Elected as chief executive of the village (population: 66,602) was Joseph George Cerny, 36, strapping Wartime engineer, job printer, electrical worker. Most of Cicero's home-loving Bohemians work in Western Electric Co.'s nearby Hawthorne plant...
...published nothing. He explained to Journalist James Rorty. who came across him while editing, with Poet George Sterling, an anthology of native California poetry, that he did not think anybody would be interested. Tamar and Other Poems (1924) had just been published in New York by an obscure printer named Boyle. The plates were offered free by Printer Boyle to at least two large publishers, who declined to print the poem because of its incestuous theme. Through the efforts of James Rorty & friends, the Boyle edition received a fanfare of reviewers' praise. In 1925 Liveright brought out "Tamar...
...middle-distance running. Doctors cut off these shoes when the race was over. In them they found evidence of almost super-human endurance?two swollen purple lumps which were Ray's feet, chafed to the bone and caked with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston printer, won the race. Ray, informed that he could never run again, slicked his hair, said he would run within a month and "positively win." A month later ? in a race which Ray re members with a shade less satisfaction than the first ? he beat...
...trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business as a printer, was the first to make smokeless powder in the U. S. Maxim, N. J. was named for him. He sold his powder inventions to E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and became their consulting engineer in time to make a fortune from the Spanish-American War. Later he invented...
...letter signed "The Printer Himself" published in the New York Herald Tribune last week, oldtime Printer Dowden, now living in Los Angeles, gave the foregoing version of the origin of the Republican party's nickname. He concluded: "The audience roared but Blaine never smiled. That settled it right there and 'Gop' held its own for a long time. Then fussy proofreaders got to decorating it with periods and it finally evolved into...