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...like Webster, still try to stick to the comic strip's old and worthy function: holding a mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young's Blondie...
Bigger, better and costlier memoirs were on the way. With General Wainwright at Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., last week was Hearst's ace story fixer, Bob Considine, who put together Captain Ted Lawson's Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Beginning Oct. 7, the Wainwright story will be syndicated in 42 installments (to some 250 newspapers) by King Features, which is paying the General a reported $155,000-the equivalent (before taxes) of 19 years' base...
...TIME'S mention of attempt of Berkshire Eagle to ascertain vote of New Ashford 18 hours before opening of polls by means of straw ballot distributed to all 48 registered voters of the village (TIME, Oct. 9), should like to ask Literary Digest's Funk what he does for red face...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...
Conceding these arrangements to the enemy, the Eagle quietly stole the whole story by entertaining New Ashford's elecorate at a pre-election turkey supper and square dance Saturday night. Here the loyal New Ashfordites told Editor Miller in confidence how they were going to vote on Election Day. The story was kept under cover till 15 hours before the opening of the polls, then "broken" in the Eagle and simultaneously sent to the 1,350 members of the Associated Press. Score: Landon, 32; Roosevelt, 12; Aiken, 1; not voting for President, 3. Featured voter: Miss Phoebe Jordan...