Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any good showman, McCarthy scheduled some comic relief. He brought on one Alexander Gregory, also of Lynn, who protested quietly: "I'm not an evil man. No one in Lynn thinks I am evil." In fact, said Gregory, he had never met an "evil Communist." All the party members he knew were "very gentlemanly, honest, conscientious, security-minded persons." McCarthy was surprisingly gentle toward the gentle Mr. Gregory...
...Morgan, M.D., a square-jawed general practitioner with an adventurous suburban clientele, has become the most widely known physician in the U.S. without ever stepping out of a comic strip. Since his appearance in 1948, Dr. Rex's struggles with quacks, epidemics and psychoses have made him one of the strips' most cherished favorites.† After a long and successful effort to keep his own identity a secret, Rex's creator and author has now owned up. His name: Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, 42, Toledo psychiatrist...
Human Failings. Dallis, an amateur cartoonist before he went to Temple University medical school, had long toyed with the idea of starting an educational comic strip about the workaday problems of a U.S. doctor. When he went to Toledo in 1946, as director of the newly established Toledo Mental Hygiene Center, he met a local resident named Allen Saunders, who does the continuity for successful comic strips himself (Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Steve Roper). Saunders encouraged Dallis, put him in touch with Chicago's Publishers Syndicate and two artists who do the final drawings. So Rex Morgan...
...realistic basis, two people so bitten with the success bug would find love only a momentary antidote. On a purely comic basis, His and Hers never really gets off the ground. So little free will is allowed the plot that something specially gay is needed in the writing; and the writing is so metallic as to seem mirthless. Beyond pleasant performances by Celeste Holm and Robert Preston, His and Hers offers only a certain smoothness...
...books that she thought should be "branded" as having been written or illustrated by "leftists." But the San Antonio News and the Express denounced her idea, and the library board turned it down. ¶ In Louisville, "the March grand jury recommended establishment of a committee to censor all magazines, comic books and other publications. The Courier-Journal . . . blasted the idea in an editorial asking: 'Who should tell an American what he can read? Congress? The churches? . . . Our own grand jury? None of them, if you ask us.' The committee was not formed." ¶ In Miami, the News...