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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moines Register and Tribune led to a bigger & better rotogravure section and, eventually, to Look magazine. Another sold the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick on the public demand for fat Sunday editions. A third, for William Randolph Hearst, led to the birth of the first comic-strip advertising and a job for George Gallup as head of the research division in the Manhattan advertising firm of Young & Rubicam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

After 1312 ballots and countless pocketed raw eggs, the Cambridge City Council has reached the end of the road. It was a long road and often a comic one, but last Friday the councilmen met for the thirty-sixth time and decided not to vote again. They didn't have to, for they had finally elected a mayor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor's Nest | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

...Detroit Police Commissioner Harry S. Toy ordered copies of all comic books on sale brought to his desk because he had discovered, he said, that some comics were "loaded with Communist teachings, sex, and racial discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

These who claimed immunity from the attraction of comic strips gave varied reasons for their abstinenco. Some said they didn't have time to read them, but one Freshman declared, "I don't need that form of escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Al Capp Leads in '51 Funny Derby As Reliable Poll Shows Mental Bent | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

Most movie magazine editors wriggle feebly inside their peculiar, specialized rules. Sighed one: "Sometimes you dream of the freedom you'd have with a more intelligent readership. Lots of us are tempted to get into the comic-book field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Opinion Leaders | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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