the year’s number-one newsmaker: “Looking ’Em Over,”
, January 1939; B. K. Beckwith,
(Willfred Crowell, 1940) p. 33.
2
forty million listeners: “Seabiscuit Stands Out,”
, November 1938.
3
seventy-eight thousand people witnessed his last race:
, album released by Los Angeles Turf Club, n.d.
4
population was less than half its current size: Irvine, E. Eastman, ed.,
(New York: New York World-Telegram, 1938) p. 241; Robert Famighetti, ed.,
(New Jersey: K-III Reference Corp., 1996), p. 377.
5
attendance comparable to Super Bowl: Jorgen Lyxell, “Super Bowl” online article (San Francisco: Jorgen Lyxell; accessed September 13, 2000);
www.acc.umu.se/~lyxell/superbowl/
.
6
forty thousand fans see workout: “40,000 See Howard’s Champion,”
, November 2, 1938.
7
fifty thousand exhausting railroad miles: M. A. Stoneridge,
(New York: Doubleday, 1972), p. 34.
CHAPTER 1
1
21 cents: “Charles S. Howard,”
, June 7, 1950, p. 1.
2
cavalry: Michael C. Howard, telephone interview, January 18, 1997.
3
racing bicycles: Terry Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company,” manuscript from the papers of Marcela Howard, July 1975.
4
“devilish contraptions”: “My Thirty Years in the Press Box,”
, February 6, 1937.
5
Anti-automobile laws: Floyd Clymer,
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953), p. 30.
