Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excited talk. They have big American cars and are very serious." Chairman Galbraith, who works for a French subsidiary of Morgan Guaranty Trust, is aided by Co-Chairman Colleen Moore, a star of silent movies, and both were pleased last week to have found a Goldwater chairman for Switzerland, Comic Strip Artist Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace). Many Goldwaterites from the U.S. have made the trip to Paris to give Galbraith and Moore a helping hand with their task...
...delight, his The Da Vinci Brothers was bought by a professional soccer player. "What I'm doing becomes a folk art," he says. For ten years, since he first enrolled at the Royal College of Art, he has filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia as lovingly as a Victorian might press flowers in his family Bible. Married to a California...
Michael Grost was pretty downcast. His parents had promised him ten Superman comic books if he got an A in school. Instead, he got only a B+ and five comics. But Mike's parents were delighted, for the course was Contemporary History of Europe and Asia, and the school Michigan State University. Mike is ten. As a special-status student at M.S.U. last year, the Lansing prodigy scored an A-average while amassing 38 credits in math, humanities, history and science...
...MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. A very funny novel about a domineering mother and her miserable teenage son. Friedman balances bitter humor and driving obsession to create an inimitable comic style...
Thanks to Playwright Wallach's quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...