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...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...
...civic reforms has hoary Memphis seen under the rule of the "Red Snapper," Boss Crump. One was to make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and saloons that Blueswriter W. C. Handy made famous in Beale Street Blues. Last week a counter-reform movement gathered such power that Mayor Walter Chandler, longtime Crumpet, had to take notice. Memphis Negroes couldn't get used to living on Beale Avenue. They wanted to be back on Beale Street, the way the tune says...
...success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique. By 1908 Editor Lorimer's magazine had passed 1,000,000 circulation. In the peak of 1929 prosperity Satevepost bounded over 3,000,000, sold $50,000,000 in advertising...
...guards are an even lot with as yet no outstanding men, but Dave Scull, Robert Sears, and Howie Johnson will bear watching. Jim Fearon, one-time St. Mark's center, ranks among the best of the pivot men, but is pressed by Danny Cheever, former ball-snapper for Milton Academy and Dave Cogswell from Beverly High...
Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...