Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...
...Affairs of Susan (Paramount) is Joan Fontaine's first fling at comic prettiness and vivacity in modern dress. Though it seems much longer, it lasts only an hour and 50 minutes...
...Mission - two big, bare-walled rooms on the street floors of two houses on West 40th Street - offered the thinnest of soup and sermons. But scores of Hell's Kitchen kids found it a charming place. Every afternoon they were invited inside to play. There were always comic books in the hymnal box; nobody objected if small fry yelled in the gospel hall or rolled empty garbage cans along the front sidewalk...
...phenomenal True Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called Spot. Their No. 1 comic hero is wonder working, high-flying Captain Marvel, and he is currently court-bound as too close an imitation of Superman...
Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils...