Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been president of the Macfadden-less Macfadden Publications, content to hide anonymously behind the circulation-catching Macfadden name. Last week Elder launched a slick addition to his string of eight magazines (True Story, Photoplay, etc.). He had designed it for the most determinedly vicarious thrill-sharers of all: American sport fans...
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Combining penny-pinching and trail-blazing is no soft task. Jack, the jovial, flashily sport-coated Warner in charge of production, has spent years policing the 120-acre lot at Burbank, making certain that no unnecessary lights are burning and that everybody is at work. Insisting that even high-bracket writers check in every morning by 9:30, Jack also knows how to deal with unimaginative studio types. He dreaded having to explain to Warner salesmen in 1935 that he planned to film a tony biography of Louis Pasteur. Paul Muni, he announced tersely, would be starred in a picture...
...some time trouble had been bubbling up around Britain's most popular sport, dog racing, which gained adherents in wartime when horse racing was virtually suspended, drew 30,000,000 fans to Harringay, White City and the 102 other British tracks last year. During the war, when there was not much else to gamble on, the customers thought there was dirty work but nobody did anything about it. (One suspected tactic: giving the favorite a bucket of water to drink just before post time, so that he bogged down...
...favorite outdoor sport was chamois hunting in the mountains hovering over the city-where the game poacher has always been a highly respected member of society, and where one of Austria's most important bits of national philosophy originated: Warst net au fig'stie g'n - warst net abag'fall'n (If you hadn't climbed up you wouldn't have fallen down...