Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journal's morning tabloid sister, the Mirror, was started in 1924 with the slogan: "90% entertainment, 10% news"; it still lives up to this. The biggest attraction is Columnist Walter Winchell, plus Drew Pearson and popular comic strips (Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka, Steve Canyon...
...Hong Kong, where he is starring in a movie called Soldier of Fortune, adventurous Cinemactor Clark Gable, a handsome 53, bumped into some pretty Oriental competition, Li Li-Hwa, durable top queen of the Chinese film world. They started the usual flurry of Gable fables by taking a congenial cruise around Hong Kong Island together...
Among India's many minorities are its 20,000 Chinese, a mere handful among India's 360 millions. Some of them have been distressed by Nehru's friendly gestures towards Communist China. Four weeks ago Li Wei-ping, a prominent merchant and former president of the Calcutta Chinese Chamber of Commerce, made a speech roundly denouncing Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Dr. C. S. Liu, who edits the Chinese-language daily, Chinese Journal of India, reported the speech in his paper. Last week the Indian government jailed Merchant Li without bail under a law called...
...days before Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched...
...mail last spring, TV Star Liberace received an unusual letter. "Even back in our old days in Boston ten years ago," it read, "I was sure that you would some day become famous enough for me to kick around in Li'l Abner . . . Since you are now a household word, it is up to all the Yokums and all the Capps to kid the daylights out of you, your piano, your candles, your curly hair and your adoring fans. I plan to do a Sunday page sequence about a pianist named Liverachy. Any resemblance to you will be deliberate...