Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comics. Her father refused to help her with the new paper. When she asked him for the right to use such famed News comic strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie, he answered: "If you think you're going to get our comic strips for use within our circulation area, you're crazy." In a drafty Hempstead garage she set up shop, using an old press and six Linotype machines bought for $50,000 from a defunct daily. As her first issue of 15,000 papers rolled off the press, a staffer came...
Efficiently and cannily, Producer Balcon takes the situation - and the spectator - for one lighthearted laugh after another, until, of course, the Scots crew gets the last laugh. Actor Douglas does astonishingly well to hold his own in such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed...
When a catlike creature named Simple J. Malarkey first entered the swampy world of Pogo, readers of Walt Kelly's comic strip noticed that he bore a marked resemblance to Joseph R. McCarthy of Washington. D.C. Any doubts they might have had as to Malarkey's true identity vanished a fortnight ago with the introduction of another Pogo character, an Indian named Charlie, who was pictured kicking an acquaintance below the belt...
...prone: last year he narrowly missed blowing off his head with a shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took over and did a very funny job. particularly in a doubletalk explanation of the economics...
...PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...