Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnists," Attorney-General Robert Jackson points with pride to the F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity...
Junior Programs was started, and is still run, at no salary, by a New Jersey suburbanite, Mrs. Dorothy McFadden, who wanted to give her children something better than they could get from radio and comic strips. Though its audiences are small fry, Junior Programs performers are adult professionals, paid at union rates. Last year Junior Programs troupes traveled 80,000 miles, gave 558 performances of opera, ballet, drama to nearly 1,000,000 youngsters, at admissions of 10? to 25?. Since each performance costs about $300, Junior Programs bookings must be sponsored locally by organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, Parent-Teacher...
Under the impression that the election was over, citizens of the U. S. last week prepared to give their ears a rest, prop up their feet, pay overdue attention to comic strips, football scores, fashion advertisements. But another campaign was on. A great shout was heard from leaders in both parties: "Unity!" Blared on the radio, blazoned in headlines were appeals, some frantic, some cool-praying that the U. S. should unite behind the President in order that the perils of the future be met in strength. "Good losers'' clubs were formed, meetings were held, petitions urging this...
...ghosts, ended with a Walpurgis nightmare calculated to turn little children's hair white. But Illustrator Nielsen's jagged scenes, plus a new high in animation technique, made it by far Fantasia's best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours...
...church (says his wife: "Don't do that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than...