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| - | [[Image: | + | [[Image:Pf103047.jpg|100px|right|Wilford H. Fawcett and his wife posed by an automobile in front of lodge at Breezy Point.]] |
| - | + | Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang, Wilford Fawcett's "explosion of pedigreed bull," published in Robbinsdale from 1919 to 1939, was a classic American humour magazine with considerable popularity in the 1920s for its quasi-raunchy jokes. Which, in any event, would lay the foundation of the Fawcett publishing group, as in magazines and paperback books.<br /> | |
| - | ''~ | + | ''~~Larry Ellis Reed, Winona, MN'' |
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Revision as of 22:51, 12 December 2007
Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang, Wilford Fawcett's "explosion of pedigreed bull," published in Robbinsdale from 1919 to 1939, was a classic American humour magazine with considerable popularity in the 1920s for its quasi-raunchy jokes. Which, in any event, would lay the foundation of the Fawcett publishing group, as in magazines and paperback books.
~~Larry Ellis Reed, Winona, MN
