Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what will happen when the Russians come," Lynch said. Present plans describe Cambridge Common as the only assembly point in the University-Radcliffe area. "Why, with 10,000 men and another 1,000 girls crowding the Common, the best brains in the country are in danger," Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 noted...
These are the questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...
...David Crane and his wellrounded bride (he marries Virginia in strip No. 17) struggle to beam the Light of the World on what the Hall Syndicate calls "an average sort of town filled with average sort of people, all of whom have warm, human stories." Differences in faith, doctrine and observance are passed lightly by, though later sequences are planned to build up a priest and a rabbi as community heroes. Idea for the strip came from Robert M. Hall, president of the Hall Syndicate, though many another syndicate had considered and rejected it as too controversial to handle. Apparently...
...David Crane's creator is Canadian-born Artist Winslow Mortimer, 36, who lives in Carmel, N.Y., collects guns, goes to Drew Methodist Church. He is aided by Hartzell Spence, son of a Methodist minister, who wrote One Foot in Heaven, and who serves as idea man and general consultant for the strip. Between them the two have a problem as old as literature -how to make the good as interesting...
...running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet named Home Watts, who is clearly modeled on the late Hart Crane...