Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democracy has had some strange blossoms. Chic Young's Blondie (see PRESS), which appears with Japanese captions in the Tokyo Asahi, has become the symbol of Minshushugi. Like thousands of her emancipated sisters, Housewife Michiko Yamaga takes time off from her chores each morning to see what Dagwood's wife is doing. "If I had even stopped to read the paper like this in the old days," she says, "my in-laws could have thrown me out of the house for being lazy. Now to read is democratic...
...National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...Chic Young has a simple explanation for the success of Blondie, which appears in 1,085 U.S. and Canadian papers and 178 foreign ones,* has been the foundation for 25 movies and a radio program, and has furnished names for countless dresses, dolls, sandwiches, shampoos, kazoos and mops. Cartoonist Young regards himself as a kind of chronicler of "the common man." Says he: "Blondie appeals to people because it is about simple things-eating, sleeping, the business of raising children, happenings around the house...
Visiting diplomats find Washington society more hectic, more alcoholic, and less chic than that of European capitals. They go to parties because they have to: drawing rooms are their workrooms. But they miss the sure social structure of London, the intellectual tone of Paris, the darkened grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel...
...Yvette, chic French begum of the portly Ago Khan, came down with what her secretary called "just a little lumbago." She joined her husband for the weekend in the Paris hospital where he is recovering from an operation...