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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bacon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
--Zora Neale Hurston
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston>
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