Word: shellshock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well rounded paper . . . with all the news. . . . And listen, you pack of delightful bastards ... tie your hats on because we're all going for a fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined...