Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holy barracuda! Now, thanks to that diabolical device, the camera, the truth is out! Divested of his bat cowl, the caped crusader is none other than U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry, 37, who roared out of his cave to do a comic song-and-dance at a Multiple Sclerosis Society benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel...
Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
...French amorists to supranational cool-jazz combos. In a beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...
...heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education, and the curious thing is that it was the make-believe that succeeded...
Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...