Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wouldn't Mrs. Senter be wiser to suggest blinding those unfortunates so they could not see our screens, movies, comic books, bathing suits, and some of our advertising...
...Radio Comic Fred Allen wore his saddest face to London, where he talked to reporters about laughs and life. Said he: "I'm the poor man's Will Rogers. There's more poor men than rich men so I have a chance of lasting a long, long time . . . Over in Hollywood, everything gets exaggerated, including people's ideas of themselves. We live in New York. People there are normal-sized. We aim eventually just to live in oblivion and get to the grave without confusion . . . I'm a sad man. I've been leading...
Inside Dope. In Lancaster, Pa., Stella Coffey, 13, was hospitalized after she took 15 pills to stay awake for an all-night session reading comic books. In Memphis, police charged Alonzo Bolden, Willis Rule and Alfred McMullen with the theft of 5,500,000 aspirin tablets ($25,000 worth...
...article, "The Case Against Ike": Thank you for keeping us informed on the Republican Party's own worst enemy, namely, dear old Bertie McCormick. To many who live in and around Chicago, the Tribune is bought and read strictly for the comic strips. The rest of the paper, in particular the editorials, would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so sad, unfortunately so because there are undoubtedly many people who read the colonel's hogwash and believe...
Star of the Family (Sun., 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV), which appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...