Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sure was surprised a couple weeks ago when your correspondent called me up long distance at Midland, Texas, asking me about that ad I had put in the Wall Street Journal...
Handsome, hulking Norman Ross was a great Olympic swimmer, a World War flier, later managed athletic tourists like Tilden, Nurmi, reported for the Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...
...little man in France, Cartoonist Fabreès, 45, was onetime art editor of Le Petit Journal in Paris. He has globetrotted enough to feel that humor is everywhere much the same. The kind he likes is good-natured. Caption of his Scandal in a Nudist Colony: "They have put potatoes in jackets on our table! What fools...
...caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously given by the Baboon Boy himself. Psychologist John Porter Foley Jr. of George Washington University assembled the details of the case for the American Journal of Psychology, published a summary last week in Science. Africa's Baboon Boy takes rank as the only child known to have been raised by "infrahuman primates" (apes or monkeys). The story...
...Roman Catholic press in the U. S. numbers 139 newspapers, 197 magazines, a total circulation of more than 7,000,000-a big orchestra, with plenty of brass and percussion. Though the tunes change, the rhythm does not. One Catholic journal with a different rhythm has been the liberal, forthright New World, official weekly of the archdiocese of Chicago. Last week the New World got in beat with the rest of the band...