Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...
...Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford...
Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...
...Fields and Chodorov comedy stage his naturally loses a bit of its original frankness at the hands of Columbia Studios, but the basic story of two would-be career girls from the midwest turned loose in a Hollywood version of old New York leaves plenty of room for the comic situations that develop...
Some other things puzzle them even more. High-collared Chris Kent, Times's general manager, inspected dummies of the new Stars & Stripes recently. When he saw the Li'l Abner, Blondie and Joe Palooka comic strips, he observed: "It's a bit amusing. But think of the Times putting out this sort of thing!" A solid page of leg art stopped him cold. "Are you going to continue this sort of thing?" he ejaculated. "It might affect the morals of our composing room...