Word: hopalong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, the National Association for Better Radio and Television, an earnest organization headed by a dentist's wife and staffed by eleven housewife "panelists," put out its sixth annual ratings of juvenile TV programs, condemned 31 out of 67 as "objectionable" or "most objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies...
Conceivably Hopalong and Superman may overstimulate young imaginations. But a steady diet of such modern-reader characters as Dick and Jane may result in something worse. To Mrs. Frances C. Sayers, former superintendent of work with children at the New York Public Library, one reason so few (17%) Americans read books after leaving school is just because their early ones are so simple and so pleasant. "This seems a paradox, and it is. The paradox is in the word 'enjoyment.' We rob the children of the initial enjoyment of wrestling with reading by making all the words...
Died. Clarence Edward Mulford, 73, prolific author (Bar 20, On the Trail of the Tumbling T), creator of the durable Hopalong Cassidy series; after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income...
...Running well in front of all opposition, Ohio State's shifty Halfback Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually by Manhattan's Downtown Athletic Club to the "outstanding college football player in the United States...
...first choices will probably be either "Hopalong" Cassidy of Ohio State, Michigan State quarterback Earl Morrall, or Maryland center Bob Pellegrini...