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...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...
...vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort of genius...
...most exciting match of the contest came next as Crimson freshman Jim Corcoran battled 158-pound Dale Bowers to a 2-2 stalemate. Each grappler had opportunities to win the decision in the final period, but counter moves foiled the scoring bids...
Unfashionable as it has become, the word charisma may have to be revived to describe Arkansas' new Senator Dale Bumpers, 49. He is so charismatic, in fact, that a lot of people, to their sorrow, have had trouble taking him seriously. "Dandy Dale" they have called him, "the man with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." But the smile has turned out to be deadly for his opponents, who never quite knew what hit them, so disarming was the weapon. Today, Bumpers is considered the most promising politician in the South-a region that, as it moderates...
...they scored a net gain of at least three seats, thereby increasing their strength in the Senate to 61 (with 38 for the Republicans and one contest still in doubt). More important, perhaps, they elected a particularly impressive freshman class. Among the more promising, in addition to the ebullient Dale Bumpers of Arkansas (see box page...