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While Cartoonist Milton Caniff looked proudly on and P-51 Mustangs circled overhead, Colorado's Governor Walter Johnson unveiled a ten-foot, 7½-ton limestone statue of comic-strip Aviator Steve Canyon at the junction of U.S. highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Why Bertie! | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Whom the Bell Tolls | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

George Herriman's [famed comic-strip character] Krazy Kat once demonstrated, to an astonished duck, the same hat-making possibilities of the tortilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Word from the Wise | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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