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...Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until...
...today, out of Van Meter, Iowa, came the news for which the world has been breathlessly waiting. Bob Feller, sensational 18 year old pitching find of the Cleveland Indians, has passed his psychology examination, final hurdle between him and a high school degree...
Lack of general interest caused its gradual decline and fall. Now the swing of events, according to backers, prompts its reappearance on the scene alongside the CRIMSON and the Student Council as a meter on the undergraduate pulse...
Major explanation of the phenomenon of Robert William Feller is his father, William Andrew Feller of Van Meter, Iowa (pop. 410). Frustrated in his own ambition to be a professional baseballer, Father Feller decided to realize it vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once...
What annoyed Eleanor most was the fact that she was judged only by conduct, not by performance. "How much fun do you think I had," she exclaimed, "sitting in the stands and watching a Dutch girl win the 100-meter backstroke in 1:23, when I had been working out regularly...