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None. But if his memory is good, he can take heart in the recollection of a certain symbolic cartoon. In the background of this cartoon is a store in construction. A placard on the wooden fence shielding the unfinished innards from public view says: Acme Drugs' New Store Open for Business Soon...
...life on a dude ranch more successfully than it breaks the monotony of watching this picture. The guys are suspected of theft but finally catch the real crooks. They are moderately amusing when they horse around with a psychiatrist (Fred Clark). They even appear, in caricature, in an animated cartoon dream sequence. It is all pretty pointless, but inoffensive...
...musicians-Pianist George Tibbies and Guitarist Ramey Idriss. Starting with the laugh-to the tune of the trumpet call used to round up musicians at rehearsals-they batted out both tune and lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies and Idriss, still playing in the band on the Joan Davis show, stand to make...
...steam-in the faces of the biggest targets it can find-in the Bawl Street Journal, a ribald parody of the Wall Street Journal. In the issue out this week, a loud blast was directed at Outlander (Cleveland) and Banker-Hater Robert R. Young, along with a ribbing cartoon (see cut). Said the Journal: "ICC will give a polite reason for permitting Robert Young to join the New York Central board. Real reason ... is to 'stop those silly...
...world of the comics was never the same after two Cleveland teen-agers turned Superman loose in it. In 15 years, he made over $400,000 for Writer Jerome Siegel and Cartoonist Joseph Shuster, and inspired a score of imitators. Superman was the first cartoon hero to make the reverse jump from comic books to newspaper syndication...