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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lena v. Gravel Gertie | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...decision was proof of its satisfaction at the 15-year-old Saturday matinee broadcast, which brings in $12,000 a week from Texaco, sponsor of the ABC airing. The Met also wanted to pay a compliment to an audience which may be undressed-or even unwashed-by Horseshoe standards, but is not untouchable. In 1940, a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Folk Operas | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yes--But | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Old Lady Shows Her Mettle | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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