Word: dagwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through a fight-fixing Joe Palooka and a baby-killing Dagwood, he begins to long for the world set right again...
Comic strips, says Waugh, abstract bits of American experience and endow them with a sort of idealized timelessness. Dick Tracy always catches the crooks he chases; The Nebbs always quarrel; Blondie and Dagwood always make up. It is part of the American daydream, he thinks, to be as courageous as Steve Canyon, as sexually irresistible as Smilin' Jack, as honest as Joe Palooka. In his harried, uncertain life, the American newspaper reader is greatly sustained by the certainties he finds in the comic strip, the movies-and nowhere else...
...Journal American for three days added two pages of comics to bring people up to date on Blondie and Dagwood. The Daily News printed its missing comics and installments of its serial story in booklets, sold them over the counter and by mail. The Times ran coupons entitling readers to book review and magazine sections they had missed...
Born. To Arthur Lake, 35, "Dagwood" of the "Blondie" cinema series, and Patricia Van Cleve Lake, 25; a second child, first daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Marion Rose. Weight...
Pepita y Lorenzo: Blondie and Dagwood...