Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every weekday 20,000,000 Americans rustle through the back pages of their newspapers to read a single-frame comic that looks as though it might have been drawn by a gifted, quizzical schoolboy. It is called Out Our Way and it is published in more newspapers (725 daily; 230 Sunday) than any other comic in the world. Unlike most U. S. comics, it has no continued story, no gags, no grotesque exaggerations, no scenes set in fantastic eras of the distant future or past...
...Woods," the blowzy, ingeniously self-thwarting moppet "Worry Wart") are as real to newspaper readers as their own cousins. Its homely humanity, bleak realism, and salty, Mark Twainish humor have attracted the attention of Americana-collecting highbrows, have earned for its author the title "Will Rogers of the Comic Strip...
...Because comic strip hero Superman recently spread pacifist propaganda in the trenches, singlehanded attempted to destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
After receiving a small gift as thanks for his special trip from New York in order to be present tonight, Jack Benny's famed stooge, Rochester, will present a comic skit. Ray W. Guild, Jr. '43, winner on the Freshman Amateur Hour, will follow a sports commentary by George Carens of the Post with a series of impersonations and wisecracks...
...succeeded as well as Purcell in pouring into this exacting mold their own genius. Pergolesi, in Italy fifty years later, was still struggling for artistic homogeneity. Incongruously juxtaposed in the "Stabat Mater" are passages of extreme spiritual content and passages which sound more than anything else like comic opera. Decades were to elapse before a style as unified in spirit as that of Purcell's was to evolve in Italy...