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Slow Game. Dowling's style of cartooning came from famed retired Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling. A Nebraska-born banker's son, Dowling met Ding at 16 and patterned his cartoons on Ding's from then on. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley ('28) and worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. He started to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, but after a month was advised to go out and work on newspapers. He got a job as an artist for the Associated Press...
...ding-dong battle with Chevrolet for top place, Ford spent $65 million on its 1954 line. Chief new feature: an overhead-valve V-8 engine that delivers 130 h.p., v. 110 h.p. in last year's model. A new Ford hardtop, the Skyliner, and the Sunliner convertible have transparent plastic roofs over the driver's seat...
CHILDREN: NBC's Ding Dong School, because it is "simple, sincere, and unpretentious...
...year-old Miss Frances, Ding Dong answers an age-old problem: what to do with the moppets whose older brothers & sisters have just trudged off to school. Most mothers, Miss Frances thinks, are far too busy with housework to pay much attention to the children left at home. The result: the children either feel left out, or start getting in mother...
Each morning at 9:30, Miss Frances opens her school with a song ("I'm your school bell! Sing dong ding . . ."), and then class begins. Sometimes it is about modeling clay, sometimes talking about buses or fruits. Miss Frances goes in heavily for demonstration: "Little children love to touch things. But no one takes the trouble to teach them language for what they discover. We try to give them some feeling for shapes. They like to be able to say something is rough or smooth, oblong or narrow...