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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmund Davie Fulton, Tory member of Canada's Parliament from Kamloops, B.C., had never read a crime comic until some of his worried constituents sent him a batch two years ago. Shocked by the gory yarns, 33-year-old Tory Fulton, onetime Rhodes scholar and wartime infantry officer in Italy, began a crusade. He thundered for Parliament to outlaw such comics, most of which are published in Toronto from mats shipped in by U.S. publishers...
Impressed by the success of cut-rate fares, scheduled airlines last week announced a new batch of low fares on transcontinental and transatlantic runs. Among them...
Author Clare Barnes Jr., art director for the big Manhattan advertising agency of Benton & Bowles, got his idea while looking through a batch of animal photographs for an ad campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July...
...spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
...varsity was not no ever powering as the score indicates. It was a fairly dull match because the visitors offered real competition in only two classes (186 and 155) and because several of Batch Jordan's men, particularly Bob Claflin, looked uncertain at their new weights...