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...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...
...soldiers in Britain learned to like a leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...designed restaurant posters in return for his meals and sat up nights working out comic-strip ideas. He wrote Mom: "You asked if I had been dissipating. If two shows and a few chocolate sundaes could be called dissipating then I'm a playboy...
...Vallee. First of Ramsey's five-day-a-week dramatic serials was The Puddle Family, lifted bodily from a comic strip. A year's trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
...soap on the road; took a mail-order course in steam engineering; courted the belle of Springfield, Ill. ("Beautiful creature-she later married a brakeman.") He joined a street carnival as barker and sold the Perfesser's cure with a medicine show. In 1919 he became a comic-strip artist, began drawing The Bungles. By last week he was good & tired of that...