Word: dagwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democracy has had some strange blossoms. Chic Young's Blondie (see PRESS), which appears with Japanese captions in the Tokyo Asahi, has become the symbol of Minshushugi. Like thousands of her emancipated sisters, Housewife Michiko Yamaga takes time off from her chores each morning to see what Dagwood's wife is doing. "If I had even stopped to read the paper like this in the old days," she says, "my in-laws could have thrown me out of the house for being lazy. Now to read is democratic...
Purely Coincidental. To confirmed Blondie fans, Mr. & Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead, their son Alexander ("Baby Dumpling"), their daughter Cookie, their dog Daisy and her puppies are as real as the folks next door. When Cookie was "born," 431,275 readers suggested names for her. If Blondie fries an egg in a new-type pan, letters flood in from readers who want to know where...
...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...
...Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
...inserts itself on the same bill, and is noteworthy for a truly obnoxious business man named Mr. Radcliffe and the first post war use of a piece of beef-steak to soothe a blackened eye. If you enjoy the repeated sight of mail men being demolished by an onrushing Dagwood, this is for you. Otherwise, a short call to the respective theaters will enable you to miss...