Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sugar & Spice. In 1948, Sparky sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post: a smug little boy sitting on the end of a chaise longue with his feet propped on a footstool. Not long after, Sparky was hired to do a weekly cartoon panel that ran wherever the editor...
That was Sparky's last spectacular mishap. In 1950, after many rejections by other syndicates, Li'I Folks was accepted by Manhattan's United Feature Syndicate as a comic strip. Over Sparky's protest, the syndicate renamed it Peanuts. "I wanted to keep Li'I...
Some investment. More than 15,000 thoroughbreds are foaled in the U.S. each year, so the odds against any one winning the Derby are 15,000 to 1. Still, folks keep trying. Financier Louis Wolfson has been at it for years. In 1961 he had a top prospect in Roving...
But which young men are likely to take advantage of the offer of a year of academic work at the Kennedy Institute? Scarcely the young Everett Dirksens and Lyndon Johnsons, who make their way through elections on their close ties with the home folks. Scarcely, too, the men from parts...
The extremists often ask the same questions as the "moderates," but they aren't interested in answers. I was in Sheriff Jim Clark's office when a police radio reported that the 300 pickets had reached the mayor's home. Clark glared at me and snapped, "You northern folks would...