Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...
...rival NBC, captured such longtime NBC stars as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen. Last week monolithic NBC finally struck back: it proudly announced the signing of an eight-year radio & TV contract (at an estimated $3,000,000) with Peabody Award-winning Comic Groucho Marx, one of CBS' top-rated shows. Cracked Groucho: "It was a tough fight...
Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.-"People have more fun than anybody"-Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd...
...diet of crackers & milk is listed as a specialty of the house. One eating place proudly lists six different combinations: a choice of sal tines or graham crackers with milk, half & half, or cream. At least one "they" expert was no longer operating: Frederick N. Goldsmith, who thought the comic strips disclosed what "they" were buying & selling and who peddled the tips in his market letter, has been banned from the street by New York State. ' The New York Times index of 50 stocks last reek hit 148.21, only a shade under its 1946 high...
...fever has spread to non-Western fields: there are Hopalong Cassidy cookies, candy bars, wallpaper, soaps and watches. A Hopalong Cassidy comic strip runs in 75 daily and 42 Sunday newspapers; every week a network of 500 Mutual radio stations broadcasts the General Foods-sponsored Hopalong Cassidy show (Sun. 4 p.m. E.D.T.). And Composer Nacio Herb Brown (You Are My Lucky Star, Singin' in the Rain) has signed up for the exclusive privilege of writing songs about Hoppy...