Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tone of the evening hovered somewhere between shlock and slumber. The show got off to a nervous opening, with a somewhat tense local host introducing the master of ceremonies of the evening not once but twice as "Al Clap." Cartoonist Capp ignored that, launching into a brief monologue that included the evening's best one-liners: "Who would ever have thought you could elect a conservative from New York [Senator-elect James Buckley]? It used to be that you only admitted to being a conservative to your rabbi or priest or family doctor. Now it is legal to practice...
...presidents of children's programming. NBC cuts into Saturday morning programming with one-minute Pop Ups, spots designed to teach the use of letters. CBS has three-minute mini-documentaries called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats. ABC has announced a 1971 series, Curiosity Shop, produced by Cartoonist Chuck Jones (Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny...
During his first four months in office, many Britons wondered whether the Prime Minister would ever start anything. He seemed to spend so much of his time sailing his yacht, Morning Cloud, that a cartoonist showed him asking a bobby...
...Philip Hoff lost out in his attempt to become the first Democratic Senator from Vermont in over a hundred years. Incumbent Sen. Winston Prouty is expected to take 57 per cent of the vote in a campaign including such tactics as cartoonist Al Capp's racist appeal (unsolicited by Prouty) on the Senator's behalf...
...trouble began when Cartoonist Mort Walker decided his 20-year-old strip needed to catch up with the times. A black character was the obvious answer. Says Walker: "I wanted a strong character who is proud of being black, but I knew it had to be a funny character to go along with the rest of the strip." Walker named him Lieut. Flap and gave him an Afro hairstyle, a goatee and a brain power that seems a bare millivolt greater than the low-powered intellects around him. His rank requires white subordinates to call...