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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wood on the Fire. But it was the children who put the golden fence posts in Hoppy's old corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Tall in the Saddle | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Benchley Festival" accompanies the main feature. To see the comic in "An Evening Alone," "How to Sleep," and "A Night At the Movies" is alone worth a trip to the Beacon Hill...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

Finally David Tutacv deserves high praise for his excellent direction, especially for his perservering search for interesting "business" not in the script, and for retaining the comic vitality of the original play...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/16/1950 | See Source »

...Herewith an up-to-date picture of Marion & husband Jack Douglas, an unreformed gag writer turned comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Married. Mischa Auer, 44, perch-eyed film comic (For You I Die); and Suzanne Kalish, 21, daughter of a New York chemical exporter; she for the first time, he for the third; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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