Daisy Bacon (1898–1986) was an American pulp fiction magazine editor and writer, best known as the editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947. She was hired in 1926 to assist with "Friends in Need", an advice column in the magazine, by Street & Smith, a major pulp magazine publisher. Two years later she was promoted to editor. Love Story was one of the most successful pulp magazines, and Bacon was frequently interviewed about her role and her opinions of modern romance. Street & Smith gave Bacon other magazines to edit, including Ainslee's in the mid-1930s and Pocket Love in the late 1930s. From 1940 to 1947 she took over as editor of Romantic Range, which featured love stories set in the American West, and in 1941 she was also given the editorship of Detective Story. In late 1948 she became the editor of both The Shadow and Doc Savage, but Street & Smith shut down all their pulps the following April.

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1904:

The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD

1939:

French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium

1979:

The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War

2020:

After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Spanish_government_formation

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shelve: 1. (transitive) 2. To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves. 3. To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf. 4. (figurative) To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf. [...] 5. (figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf. 6. To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.). 7. (also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service. 8. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang. 9. (transitive, Britain, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents. 10. (intransitive) 11. Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope. 12. (obsolete) To be in an inclined or sloping position. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shelve

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