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Although Eisner's plotting and characterization (he specialized in lush villainesses) made The Spirit an early comic book excursion into Terry and the Pirates-type-exoticism, The Spirit himself was a genial, middle-class fellow in a baggy blue suit and a Lone Ranger mask: hardly one of your invincible superheroes. Perhaps the magnetic appeal of Denny Colt resulted from Eisner's combination of a wholesome American hero and a sinister world of shadowy evil. In any case, Eisner and his Spirit were a tremendous influence on comic strip artists of the next generation...
Died. Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...Rare Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds...
Thai was always quite genial and smiled incessantly. In particular, he enjoyed talking about the economic progress which South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people...
Died. Albert Thomas, 67, Democratic Congressman from Texas' Eighth District (Houston) since 1937, a gentle, genial but nonetheless powerful legislator who, as head since 1949 of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Independent Agencies (NASA, AEC, etc.), earned a reputation among some agency chiefs as the budget-snipping leader of "the Thomas Obstacle Course" and among Houstonians as the provider of such plums as its $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center; of cancer; in Washington...