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...blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected harmlessly by flesh...
...your Oct. 7 issue I notice along with sane reporting on the Foreign News front a short article about "Lower Slobbovia" of comic-strip fame. Don't you think TIME is going a little too far by including such trash within its renowned covers? I, an ardent reader, most definitely do. Comic strips have meant to me and many other thinking people nothing more than a beautiful example of America's love of escapist reading. I hope TIME too is not becoming slightly escapist...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate last week paid $1,500 for the comic-strip rights to Duchess Hotspur, Rosamond Marshall's flashy, trashy, bedroomy bestseller about a flaunting, extravagant queen in 18th Century London. Purpose: to run it in November as a cartoon-&-text feature in the New York Mirror and other Hearst papers-now tapering off on their anti-dirty book campaign...
...Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley Quick...
...publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...