The Press: Whiz-Banger

In the smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He...

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