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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weeks ago a computing machine strangely reminiscent of Mark III appeared in Milton Caniff's daily newspaper comic strip, Steve Canyon. It developed that an American traitor named Ganglia was trying to turn the machine over to the Russians in far-off China. After some harrowing episodes Canyon and his ex-secretary, Feeta-Feeta, managed to frustrate the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Several TIME readers wondered whether Mark III had inspired Canyon's latest adventure. Having a kind of proprietary interest in this comic strip,* we telephoned Caniff to ask if it were so. He said: "Sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...work in many ways. He gets two copies a week-one by subscription, the other on the newsstand. He files TIME stories for future reference, and often has to have both sides of a page. These stories, he added, have been the inspiration for many of his comic strip adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Columbia Pictures announced last week that a neighborhood favorite was being retired. The "Blondie" series, based on Chic Young's comic strip, could no longer survive in a sagging movie market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to the Funny Papers | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...little surface off everyone in sight, revealing the true metal beneath. Yet as the book advances, Stendhal is more than a carping social critic. He is an ironist; and above all he is a novelist using irony to tell a love story, which is both a tragic and a comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Garrison Romance | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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