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Bernays became outraged, denounced the chief MDC engineer, Benjamin, Fink, as a stooge, and urged the launching of a massive anti-underpass campaign...
...never does." Neither he nor Joyce drinks, smokes or swears. Like his creation Charlie Brown, who never uses an expletive stronger than "Good grief!" Schulz insists: "I've never used a cuss word in my life. I don't even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps I'm just ridiculously sensitive." He believes that "comic-strip artists have a responsibility to be uplifting and decent. This is not difficult. My book, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, is completely innocent; yet in 1963 it outsold every other book, despite the waves of smut sweeping the country...
...five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York wot is supposed to know their onions...
...What? Committee Counsel Bernard Fensterwald Jr. tried to clarify matters. "This was an arrangement," he said, "whereby, I understand it, you were putting what would normally be described as a 'fink' in touch with TIME-LIFE to write a magazine article...
Fensterwald: Fink, FINK...