Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German boxing addicts who had criticized Hamas for not copying Schmeling's assiduous training routine, saw their judgment quickly and completely vindicated. Schmeling steadily battered Hamas to a bloody pulp, dropped him for three counts of nine in the sixth round. In the ninth, Belgian Referee Valoni allowed Hamas to be battered about for one minute more, then mercifully sent Schmeling to his corner. With the Nazi crowd of 25,000, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's Jewish manager, expressed his joy with a right-arm salute...
Appropriately enough, Author Ferber's latest run-of-the-mill is about pulp. Come and Get It is the story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat...
...such an individual were also the active editor of a magazine, it would be news. Next week will appear a new magazine boasting Lowell Thomas as editor. It is called Saga, "The Adventurers' Magazine." Issued for a few months last year as a pulp, Saga is to be resumed as a smooth-paper book, price 25?, containing 96 pages of thrills in story, and picture. Contrary to advance publicity, Lowell Thomas' editorship is purely honorary, a favor to his friend Albert Buranelli (brother of Writer Prosper Buranelli) who will publish Saga. Most of the editorial work is done...
...experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...