Word: chinlessness
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...Gump family have been galumphing along in their daily comic strip for over 30 years. They first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Chinless, blowhard Andy Gump, his long-suffering, last-wording wife Min, and their billionaire Uncle Bim became as familiar to millions of newspaper readers as the neighbors, and Andy's anguished cry for help ("O, Mini") was a byword of the '30s. When a minor character called Mary Gold was heartlessly killed off (the first U.S. comic-strip figure to die), thousands of readers protested...
...late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans...
Innocents & a Broad. Cartoonist Caniff's contribution to the industry was to throw in some curves and give it glamor. Long before he came along the "comics" had generally ceased to be funny. They had learned a thing or two about narrative from Sidney Smith's chinless Gumps and Frank King's morality play about the Wallets of Gasoline Alley. But mostly their idea of action was to have a character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch...
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 65, chinless favorite of World War I caricaturists, received the press at his villa in Hechingen, let it be known that he missed the horses and golf of dear old Potsdam, that the House of Hohenzollern was ready to trot onstage at a moment's notice. Queried newsmen: did he mean son Louis Ferdinand? "Myself or my son," he corrected...
Some 25,000 eager aficionados paid scalpers up to $200 a seat for the thrill of watching Spain's finest torero, slight, 28-year-old, chinless Manolete (born Manuel Rodríguez,), make his first appearance in the Mexican bull ring. Outside Mexico City's Plaza de Toros, some 200 Federal troops, 50 tear-gas squadmen and two fire-engine crews restrained the thousands who could not get tickets...