Word: zane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart; that the great Yeats himself (an admirer of Zane Grey) was prepared to acclaim O'Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats had barely looked into Dostoevsky. Appalled by such duplicity and filled with hatred of the new Eire's clerical atmosphere, O'Casey packed...
Divorced. George O'Brien, 48. daredevil Western cinemactor and hero of Zane Grey roles; by Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 37, auburn-haired stage & screen actress; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...more than thirty members of the new group chose an executive board of five from a slate of seven nominees. In addition to Alden, those elected were: as Secretary-Treasurer, Warren Vander Maas '49; as members-at-large, Rudolf A. M. Roemer '49, Burton Benedict '45, and Charles M. Zane...
...share of retirements and deaths, but changes in authors and artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover) on his Mr. and Mrs. strip until eight years...