Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Radio's reluctant comic entertains Jack Benny's valet, Rochester...
...took a world war to slow down William Saroyan's output. Even critics who found his 20-odd books and plays raddled with verbosity and cuteness conceded that they were sometimes beauty-spotted with comic genius. Saroyan, out of the Army now, is 37, a bit heavier, a bit graver, and a well-domesticated citizen of San Francisco. He lives in a two-story stucco house, with wife Carol and two children (Aram, 2½, and Lucy, four months), sprinkles the lawn, and sits at his work desk studying the Racing Form with practiced...
...Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show (TIME, Dec. 31), Kenny Delmar has been something more than sensational. Last week, after eight months burlesquing Southern statesmanship, Senator Claghorn was far and away the best comic character of the 1945-46 season...
Through such crude but effective polls, Patterson got the inspiration for an amazing assortment of Daily News features, the best of which was his Voice of the People letters column, drawing more than 50,000 letters a year. He thought up comic strips whose casts became national characters: The Gumps (his mother coined the name), Dick Tracy, Winnie Winkle, Terry and the Pirates, Smitty (whose boss, Mr. Bailey, was J.M.P. himself...