Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was so small that Barnes forbade his staff to look at the figures. Most Britons shared trie view of a London lorry driver: "It's all right for them who likes that kind of stuff, but give me Tommy Handley" [Britain's top radio comic]. Only a scattering of intellectuals and critics cheered, but they cheered vigorously...
...your Oct. 7 issue I notice along with sane reporting on the Foreign News front a short article about "Lower Slobbovia" of comic-strip fame. Don't you think TIME is going a little too far by including such trash within its renowned covers? I, an ardent reader, most definitely do. Comic strips have meant to me and many other thinking people nothing more than a beautiful example of America's love of escapist reading. I hope TIME too is not becoming slightly escapist...
Cartoonist Al Capp, who invented Lena to rib fellow Cartoonist Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst...
...Nerves. Author Nicolson does not introduce the comic-opera aspects of the Peace Congress for laughs, but to show the powerful accumulative effect of minor irritations on men who are tired and overburdened. Inevitably, he argues, in any great conference, personal characteristics exercise a growing influence. Delegates become filled with personal rancors, and follow their prejudices into side issues. And as the nerve-racking routine stretches into months of inconclusiveness, a weariness, an urge to be done and go home, settles over the conference table...
...want to know who we are, We're the hucksters of radio. . . . . We're vice presidents and clerks, Confidentially, we're all jerks. . . . There was no mistaking the tune. With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, Fred Allen, radio's comic Pooh-bah, this week joined the growing ranks of the industry's flagellants with a withering burlesque: The Radio Mikado, written by Allen...