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Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...French Republic: a dinner service and hand mirror for Queen Farida...
Next day Dan Parker, sports editor of the Hearst Mirror, retaliated with his own fairy tale which began: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf named Screwball Bowers. Now, Screwball wasn't like other dwarfs. He was dwarfed only from the neck up." Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper...
...diffuse than Antares, it is believed to have a temperature of only 1,000° C., lowest of any star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed in a stellar atmosphere. Actually, Epsilon Aurigae's monstrous, almost transparent companion has not yet been seen or photographed. It was deduced from spectrographic observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution...
...volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild...