Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ranger galloped into the films, comic strips and novelty business. Mr. Striker got $10,000 a year, Mr. Graser...
Engaged. Donald Budge, 25, redheaded, bucktoothed professional tennis champ; and Deirdre Conselman, Stanford sophomore, daughter of the late Bill Conselman, creator of the Ella Cinders comic strip; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...cinema's pet tricks-an invisible person startling the other characters by smoking a cigaret, rowing a boat, opening a door. Some is fair comedy-Roland Young's befuddled resignation to a world of phantoms and foul play; the friendly insolence of Eddie Anderson (Radio Comic Jack Benny's radio butler, Rochester Van Jones). All of it is hokum, tried & true...
Although I am one of this thoughtless generation (13), I generally read TIME. In the Feb. 24 issue I came across your brilliant (oh, yeah!) expose of comic books. I was amazed: "An overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting." Brother, don't make us laugh...
...picture. It's full of highland accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping their feet and singing with him. All this makes for a very informal evening...