Word: humor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowell House in the last year. Edward M. Yamasaki '50 as "the man who has fostered the most fraternal House spirit"; Frederick Richardson '48 as "the man who has done most to promote House athletics"; and Thurlow G. Ricker '48, as "the House member with the best sense of humor." Carlson is former chairman of the House Committee. Richardson is House athletic secretary...
Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
Maggie Porter was in high good humor; as vice president of Porter Paint she had helped push its sales over $2,000,000 last year, had boosted her 1949 volume 33% over the same period last year. "Sure," says she, "I use my friends to get business. But then you have to deliver. I see to it that...
...amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits...