Word: striebel
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...nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka to 30 papers in 25 days, then sold it to McNaught...
...Stanley Evans, Highland Park, Mich. Negro: the National A. A. U. heavyweight boxing championship; outpointing Irwin Striebel of St. Louis, who outweighed him by 30 lb.; in St. Louis...