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...Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five comic books and their four surviving pulps (Detective Story, Western Story, Doc Savage, The Shadow) bit the dust...
Next to eating Mexican food, the thing California-born Richard A. Gonzales probably enjoys more than anything else is taking life easy. When the mood hits him, "Pancho" plays tennis, but he is not the man to fret long hours over improving his backhand, or his serve, or his volley. Says he: "I just want my whole game to get better all over." At 20, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.) Pancho is the most thoroughly unstudied champion ever to win the U.S. National singles crown...
...House volley ballers continue their regular season today with Adams playing Eliot and Leverett playing Kirkland...
...angriest reaction came from trigger-tempered Ross Siragusa of Admiral Radio, who got wind that the ad was to run and fired a volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later...