Word: slambang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough, Tough. Chicago has seen Ruppel's brand of slambang journalism before. Between 1935 and 1938 he doubled the circulation of the tabloid Times by such arresting noises. (In fact, his latest outburst was a tried-&-true Ruppel trick: a Times headline once blazoned: CHICAGO HAS A DIRTY NECK.) In his Times days, Ruppel got a hospital-bed picture by disguising photographers as clergymen, used a siren-screaming ambulance to rush World Series photographs to the engravers...
...short introduction by Magazine Writer Kyle (Redder Than the Rose) Crichton. "Virgil Partch is nuts," writes Crichton, ". . . but nuts in a nice American way." Partch fans found little that was Nelly-nice, less that was especially American. But they did find a fresh-cartoon humor, based on a slambang, explosive brand of fantasy. Example...
...Mencken, happy over the soldier-sailor fan mail that followed pocket-size reprinting of his autobiographical Happy Days and Heathen Days, exuberated with an old-fashioned Mencken slambang: "That is the difference between a soldier and a civilian. The letters you get from civilians come from those who don't like your books...
...Fighter. It was totally unlike Ernie Bevin to duck a slambang, winner-take-all fight. Fighting had been his meat & drink when he rose from farmhand to be an unpaid union secretary, then a big-time Laborite, organizer of the 1926 General Strike, and founder of Britain's biggest independent union, the powerful (850,000 members) Transport and General Workers...
Coach Hanford explained that experience would probably be the determining factor for starting assignments in the Tufts clash but new face will be popping up during the season as the newcomers realize their potentialities. Things in general looked in Saturday's slambang, two hour scrimmage, but "we don't know how we'll stack up against another team," asserted Hanford, Enthusizsm is one quality that the stickmen are long on, as became painful obvious Saturday when several men limped off the field after close-contact skirmishes...