Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town makes a great deal too much of Ginger's behavior, and so does the author. In fact, a girl football player has far more shock than story value, while even as a comic crusade, father's belief in freedom of the running play seems a far cry from freedom of speech...
...hard-working plot of Time Out for Ginger is both a little too silly and a little too jumbled, and the teen-age daughters not only are comic-strip themselves, but are raucously wooed by comic striplings. Yet a good deal of Time Out is thoroughly amiable, and a fair amount of the show is amusing...
...youngsters have already zoomed confidently off into the vast ocean of space; they can buy space suits, space guns and rockets in almost any toyshop. In 50-odd science fiction magazines, space travel is a favorite theme. Eight comic strips and at least two TV programs are flying through space. "Scientific" space books are brisk sellers. But not all members of the space cult are storytellers, crackpots or kids. Some serious scientists believe that space flight will surely come, and perhaps soon, but they know that separating facts and fancy about space travel is almost as difficult as a trip...
...committee estimates the number of pocket-sized paper covers put on the market in the last two years at nearly 500,000,000 copies. Magazines are listed at 1231 different titles; comic books at some 450 to 500, and estimates of their total circulation for the past two years runs into the near-billions...
...Several comic book publishers have in past years adopted the socalled "Comic Book Code," which provides that their juvenile publications will not overemphasize sex, crime, exhibit racial or religious prejudice, or portray American institutions in a harmful manner. They are, needless to say, the few among the many...