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...modern draftee as soft as a grape? And is the peacetime army too polite ever to tread on him? For some strange reason, Author Hargrove seems to feel that he needs this thesis to write a fictional sequel to his famed funnybook of World War II, See Here, Private Hargrove. Fortunately, it scarcely clutters up the plot, and Author Hargrove is soon back on the grin-and-gripe days of basic. While the rover-boys-in-training-camp is not exactly fresh comedy material. The Girl He Left Behind is still good and sufficient grounds for an evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Hargrove Was Here | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...town fraternity initiates invaded Cambridge last night, but were unable to accomplish their hazing duties because local merchants thought they were part of the local funnybook's Fool Program. "We are sincere," said one pledge, "those Fool boys are harming our institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pledges Ask Peace | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

...most proper British magazines, their Christmas number is the climax of the year. By last week, most major British magazines had shipped out their cheery, dowdy Christmas annuals to make the Holidays complete for homesick Britons all over the world. Heading the list was the venerable funnybook Punch, with its Almanack for 1937, which was like any other issue of Punch except that it had a cover in color by Ernest Howard ("When We Were Very Young") Shepard, many a color page inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Christmas Annuals | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Judge, funnybook, had almost finished its entire October issue to be called the "Every Man a King Number,'' the cover depicting a street scene with men & women walking about in ermine robes and crowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: After Long | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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