Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like her mother, Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Rowland Green Wilks was a lonely, frugal recluse. She dwelt alone in a Manhattan apartment, wore cheap, drab clothing, doted on newspaper comic strips. After her death a year ago at 80, officials found her will stuffed in a tin cabinet along with four cakes of soap. It cut off her closest relative, a cousin, with $5,000 (later raised to $140,000 after court action), divided most of the fortune among 63 charities and educational institutions...
...Comic Jimmy Durante's TV show in Hollywood, Margaret Truman was led to a drawing board, blindfolded, handed a crayon and asked to connect a series of jumbled lines. When she finished, Jimmy unbandaged her eyes, rotated the board 90°. Margaret's product: "I LIKE IKE." Groaned she: "I don't dare go home tonight...
...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...
...time Li'l Abner fans have recovered from the shock of the marriage, Capp will have another surprise for them. Next fall, he plans to make Fearless Fosdick a separate comic strip and has already lined up papers in 30 cities...
...blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever was temporarily shelved for political reasons, after Parks appeared last March before the Un-American Activities Committee and admitted that he was once a Communist Party member. The whole...