Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distributions are made under the personal supervision of representatives of World Student Relief and are channeled through the W.S.R. Geneva Office. In the four countries chosen by your committee, the staff representatives are; K. Z. Li, Shangai; Howard Reed, Athens; Phyllis Farley, Warsaw; and M. Andrey, Vienna...
...Bulletin's 180-page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly...
Caniff's dear, dead A.P. days will never be beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...read all the comics in Stars & Stripes. ... I like Blondie because through her I get an idea of the American way without straining my brains. But Dick Tracy and Moon Mullins are not very funny to me. . . . Terry and the Pirates are a mere children's story. . . . Li'l Abner is a cartoon I can't understand...
...Lines, left Continental for American. Drinkwater thinks that Western's new stock issue will put it in sound financial shape. To keep it that way, he intends to order a general economic belt tightening. His first act as Western president will be to introduce (on interoffice memos) a Li'l Abner-like cartoon of an Indian (Western's trademark) tightening his belt. Said Drinkwater: "A fat Indian isn't an efficient Indian...