Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moppets and moppet-minded grownups-buys some 25,000,000 comic books each month. Are they good for children...
...Those with Children. In Chicago, Judge Edwin A. Robson had installed a nursery just off his court. As parents stood before the bench last week (few Chicago bailiffs wasted time asking them to take the witness stand), their children looked at comic books or played with blocks just down the hall. Children were still the real victims. Thousands of them would learn to accept the impermanence of their parents' marriages as natural and matter-of-fact. Instead of having two parents they would now have one - or three, or four; they would learn to be visitors...
Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...
...Price of Butter. Beneath his old-fashioned journalist's prose, readers could trace the change in U.S. attitude toward Europe-a change from Sunday feature stories (with an undertone of the comic strip) to solid, informed reporting about such brass tacks as the EAM in Greece and the price of butter in Britain...
Peace on earth was two weeks old, but in the never-never land of comic strips-prepared weeks in advance-the war went on. Last week syndicated artists, caught with their paints down, struggled for quick and graceful ways to get their heroes out of uniform...