Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like cartoon characters in the comic strips, many newspaper columnists never seem to grow old. For six years the same picture of Frank Kingdon, a onetime Methodist minister, has illustrated his "To Be Frank" column in the tabloid, New York Post, it was the likeness of a mildly balding, clean-shaven man in his 40s. Last week Dr. Kingdon, 59, decided to be frank about his looks. Without warning to the readers, the Post overnight changed photographs, used a new one of a bald, bearded and much older man (see cuts...
...upper Nile (opposite page, bottom) broke with tradition. Like many late Pompeian artists, he found a sketchy, exaggerated, caricaturing approach best suited to his age. His somewhat bloodthirsty and hurried cartoon seems remarkably contemporary in the 20th century - it might almost be mistaken for a panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger in the air. The gods, speaking through Mt. Vesuvius, had begun to grumble...
...four-year-old with a posterior no larger than the palm of an irate parent's hand is rapidly becoming the nation's most popular towhead. As a comic-strip character, Dennis the Menace is practically a member of the family for the readers of 200 U.S. newspapers. But this little one-man gang has also become something of a sensation between book covers. Dennis the Menace, published last September, has already sold close to 140,000 copies. Even a publisher could guess the sequel to that: More Dennis the Menace...
...Mighty Mouse, a comic-book character, took off on an interplanetary flight into a realistic 3-D, dodging satellites and asteroids at every turn...
Anyone Can Win (alternate Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) has as many electric score-keeping gimmicks as a pinball machine, and features Cartoonist Al Capp as a wisecracking moderator who fires questions at a guest panel, including a mystery guest disguised as one of Capp's comic-strip characters (currently Hairless Joe). The show has a particularly noisy studio audience because each member holds a ticket with the name of one of the four panelists, and the backers of the winning contestant divide $2,000. Sponsor: Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid...