Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Binghamton, N.Y., students of St. Patrick's parochial school collected 2,000 objectionable comic books in a house-to-house canvass, burned them in the school yard...
Wall Street's "Maggie & Jiggs" Forecaster Frederick N. Goldsmith, 83 (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 29) was permanently enjoined last week by the New York State Supreme Court from selling any more stock-market letters. The court ruled that as Goldsmith got his tips from the comic strips and departed spirits (instead of "recognized sources") and did not inform his clients of his sources, his letters were worthless...
...15th time in as many years, Fred Allen announced last week that he was quitting radio. The satchel-eyed comic told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "I'm going to sit around and think, and see what's going to happen with television." And he "may write. I have four chances to do books...
...spite of a routine comic framework, Robert Montgomery and Bette Davis have a moderately intelligent script in "June Bride," and that's all they need. Montgomery is an accomplished wisecracker, and on occasion he can make even a standard line something to be remembered. Bette Davis, of course, is an actress, and although she seems a bit bottled up in a role that doesn't require lots of emotion, she can handle light comedy without much effort...
...producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...