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8 picks · 1938–1955

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Mac and Chief
fiction ·

The writer's friend, Ianko came to this country from Czechoslovakia and he speaks English quite well, but he wants to speak New York, and that, of …

The Fight in the Hallway
fiction ·

The writer sitting in a bar, hears his friend Leo tell about his fight. Seems a neighbor had called his baby a 'Goddam kid' and told him to get the…

THE JACKPOT
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the James P. Caffreys, a substantial family of Wakefield, R. I., who won the $24,000 jackpot on the "Sing It Again" program. …

The Sizzle
profiles ·

PROFILE of Elmer Wheeler, head of the Tested Selling Institute, 521-5th Ave. He works out Tested Selling Sentences or, finds the "sizzle" in a product. Mr.…