Re: (erielack) Fruit and Erie magazine?

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>]

Our revered  "Blue Moon Network Administrator," in response to Paul's
question

> > Henry's scan of the June 1929 issue of the employee magazine. WHY does
> > it say "Cantaloupe Number" at the top of the cover?

wrote:

> I don't know what the signifigance of the word "NUMBER" is on the cover.
It's
> the only really old Erie Magazine I have seen so I don't really have a
frame
> of reference for how they listed the feature stories on the covers that
far
> back.

Back in them thar days, magazines did a "number" on a topic.  It meant an
issue devoted to that topic to the exclusion of just about any other topic.
Today, you'd say the "Cantaloupe Issue."  I think this is the origin of the
phrase "He really did a number on him!" which you hear bandied about today.

SGL

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