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Gradually his writings grew more conservative, but three qualities remained constant: lucidity, fairness, and logical argument. To a young cub admirer, Sullivan explained his aim: "I write my columns with a mythical drugstore owner in Oklahoma in mind. I imagine that I have stopped in to get a soda and that I am sitting at the counter talking to the proprietor. He is interested in national events and so am I. And it is up to me to make things clear so that my friend across the counter cannot possibly misunderstand...
...original story, co-authored by Sidney Franklin Jr. and TIME Writer Eldon Griffiths, is based on Griffiths' 1951 LIFE report about the real-life adventures of Floyd C. Humeston, who did a circus wrestling act with Fagan, had brought the lion up from a cub and slept in the same bed with him. When Humeston was drafted, Fagan was adopted by the Monterey...
...east to Cornell, where he edited the school daily, won a gold medal for fencing, received his B.A. in 1904. He topped off his education with a year at the University of Bologna. His uncle, Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic for the New York Herald. Three years later, in 1908, Nathan was introduced to H. L. Mencken. Stanley had met Livingstone in what both men felt to be darkest America...
Brooklyn Blossom. It meant the end of the minors for Eddie and Dickie, but not the end of Stanky's spring-legged struggle for recognition. He was sold to the Chicago Cubs in 1943 and was beaned in his first game. It was the third time Stanky had stopped a fast ball with his head. The first time was the worst: he got a fractured skull, and the hearing in his left ear was so impaired that he was rejected for military service. Even in that war year with the Cubs, he hit only a lackluster .245. The next...
...either side of the stripped-down fuselage of a Taylor Cub, he fastened stubby wings curved into a smooth semicircle -the bottom halves of two 6-ft.-wide Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the trailing edge. If his calculations were correct, when the spinning props sucked air through the U-shaped channels, Custer's plane would fly-like that West Virginia barn roof a quarter-century before...