Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these modern artists trying to produce items that are beautiful and awe-inspiring or are they trying to put the comic strips out of business? Witness for example the social outrage titled "Benediction" [TIME, Feb. 18]. Just what is this supposed to be, or what is it trying to represent? It looks like either the missing link or a scalded female ape searching for a long-lost flea...
...Kentucky is a first-rate comic idea, but it requires a comic genius as great as Gogol's to handle it adequately. Ex-Navy Lieut. Jesse Stuart (Taps for Private Tussie, etc.) is no Gogol. But he knows Kentucky hill life inside out (he is a native son). His ability to turn what he knows into corn-fattened pathos and good-natured farce makes Foretaste of Glory a very likable book...
...kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...
Sinus-whinus Fred Allen, the reluctant comic, was last week voted far & away the best performer on the air. Polled by the magazine Billboard, 324 U.S. radio editors also liked, as tops in their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
...first time one night in February 1940, in La Martinique, a Manhattan basement nightclub. He was an immediate hit, not only because he was funny singing in Russian dialect, but also because he puckishly suggested that he, too, could be a tree, a sled, or anything his comic imagination wanted...