Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their furniture got well wrecked and how much do you think was contributed when a hat was passed around? Believe it or not, these rescued wayfarers were so frozen up that the total shakedown reached the grand sum of $27.50. The average was less than 20? each. I wonder what the Ehrmantrauts think now about the human race...
...magazine with so pat an editorial formula: 1) no heroine is ever extremely poor or rich, and no story is ever set in unfamiliar lands (Confessions' middle-class readers can thus envision themselves in every tell-all); 2) since the readers live drab lives, they naturally wonder what would have happened if they had gone sinning instead - and by reading about sin in True Confessions, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they were wise to stay pure...
...Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called Spot. Their No. 1 comic hero is wonder working, high-flying Captain Marvel, and he is currently court-bound as too close an imitation of Superman...
...stepped on a land mine. Although he had been given a full grain of morphine, he was in extreme agony, and he pleaded with the doctors: "Please, can't you put me to sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn and burned black. In a few-minutes he stopped groaning...
...twenties, Storyteller Lydia Perera (in private life Mrs. Wil Marcus of Boston, Mass.) is a rarity among children's entertainers-she has a sense of humor and a sense of children's dignity that keep her from acting either cute or brimful of fake wonder. For her novel program, listeners send in lists of "any three things in the world," and around the three things Lydia writes her Story to Order. Sometimes they come out fantasies, sometimes realistic dramas, sometimes burlesques. Most of them are pretty good...