Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboy's barring out Too comic for the solemn things they are Too comic for the solemn things in them...
...nine dailies broke the silence with editions that tried, in one way or another, to make up for lost days. The Daily News brought comic-strip buffs up to date on neglected episodes in the lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects...
...source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with a steel file jutting candlelike from the frosting...
...Abner. Al Capp's comic-strip Dogpatch set to music. In CINCINNATI...
...present, there are five Humanities courses offered, ranging from "Epic and Novel" to "Uses of the Comic Spirit." Two of these are limited in enrollment to 200 students...