Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dahl is as much a part of Boston as codfish and baked beans. For years his cartoons in the Herald on every view of the local scene have delighted and angered proper and improper Bostonians. The HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1248 Massachusetts Avenue, is selling this $2.50 book at a Season Special price...
...Washington, a few with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
...cartoons rescue the issue, being a shade lower in quality than the average production of the undergraduate editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...
...days after Lex Barker, cinema's tenth Tarzan, signed a marriage license to wed flame-haired Cinemactress Arlene (Watch the Birdie) Dahl, she suddenly called the whole thing off, flew back to Hollywood in a huff. Tarzan followed in another plane, found her, and promised breathless tabloid readers a happy ending as they headed back to Manhattan together. Explained Arlene: "What actually happened was that two dog-tired people just emotionally exploded over a simple misunderstanding...
With the chomping of popcorn almost audible in the sound track, the action is transparent enough to permit some enjoyment of the film's natural beauties, including the heroine. Miscast as an actress, Miss Dahl shows high promise for a career on magazine covers...