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...comic-book titles, songs and sayings are culled from some 30,000 stumpers mailed in each week by viewers who hope to win a TV set by baffling one of the teams. Five readers on the West Coast reduce this flood to a trickle of the 100 best, an assistant producer in Manhattan thins it to 50, and Stokey selects the best eight of these. A great many of the stumpers sent in have already been used or seem too easy. The most frequently submitted gag line is "Head for the roundhouse, Nellie, the brakeman can't corner...
...year's record advertising, up more than 10% over 1954, was one big reason for the newsprint shortage. Newspapers were scrounging extra supplies from such sources as music publishers and slump-stricken comic-book proprietors; they were also borrowing from each other...
...Grosset & Dun lap; $4.95), is the year's bargain in children's books, a fat, discriminating collection of writing from Beatrix Potter to Phyllis McGinley, and illustrations by such immortals as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Palmer Cox and others nearly as good. If there really is a comic-book menace abroad, this book is much the best way to cope with...
...integrates the smaller, selfish goals of individuals into larger, more social and spiritual objectives for the group . . . Conflicts are resolved by relating the immediate to the long-range and more enduring values." Faced with this assignment of relating his product to his God, many a chewing gum manufacturer, comic-book publisher, movie distributor or banker might well fall to his knees. But, says Ohmann, this would all be to the good...
...Like God." Although the manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement...