Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich-brown torchsinger and scorchdancer, longtime toast of the Paris stage; of a lingering illness; in Casablanca. Her mother was a washwoman in St. Louis, her father a porter. At 18, already a veteran of colored revues, she took her elaborate curves and odd distinctions-uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice-from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through...
Superman set out on a swim to Germany, to right the wrong of a generation and ultimately end the crudest comic-strip continuity yet: the Nazis had kidnapped Santa Claus...
Taking their Business School training in the best Pappy O'Daniel tradition, two lupine B-Schoolers have disguised their political ambitions under a sheepskin of comic strip humanitarianism in organizing their "Take the Wrinkles Out of Prune Face's Face" Committee, but so far their leveling best has been fruitless and they are no closer to their goal of election to the B-School Association...
...effort to spark the House War Stamp sales, which have been slumping of late, the War Service Committee is offering as rewards four spicy cartoons from the pen of Milton Caniff, author of the favorite student comic strip, "Terry and the Pirates...
Before he went into the Army in 1940 Joe was the comic-strip symbol of a clean, fighting American. He never fouled an opponent. Now Joe, like any other U.S. soldier, is up against unsporting enemies, and he must learn to kill or be killed. Says Palooka's creator, jovial Cartoonist Ham Fisher: "No good soldier is going to be polite in real war. Why should...