Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the "comics" had generally ceased to be funny. They had learned a thing or two about narrative from Sidney Smith's chinless Gumps and Frank King's morality play about the Wallets of Gasoline Alley. But mostly their idea of action was to have a character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch of Venus. He knocked himself out to make his brain children (he has no others) seem real. His Dragon Lady, Burma and Miss Lace were...
...days before Dday, Violetta Szabo made her fourth parachute jump. The Germans spotted her. She fought them off with a Sten gun, but was captured by the Gestapo, tortured, killed...
Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
Last week, Western's president and largest stockholder (45.7%), William A. Coulter, decided that the best way to lighten ship was to jump out himself. Seventyish, he wanted to retire from active management, anyway. Into his place went Terrell C. Drinkwater, 38, vice president of American Airlines...
...season, home games of New York's three big-league baseball teams will be televised. The Dodgers granted television rights to CBS last month. Last week the Yankees signed with DuMont Television, the Giants with NBC. Televisers were paying "a nice figure" for their privileges, and rates would jump if sponsors were found. Would park attendance slump? Yankee Skipper Larry MacPhail thought not. "We'll gain two fans for every one we lose," said he. He might not be far wrong. There are only 7,000 television receivers in the New York area...