Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second quarter, however, the Elis wasted little time. In a play practically the mirror-image of the one that Akuffo scored on, Yale's John Upton got behind the Crimson defense and drove in on goalie Nat Bowdich to blast a shot by him for the score...
...during a performance of Mignon, in Keokuk, Iowa. "My mother should have known better than to go to the opera that night," she once observed. She grew up, fat and unhappy, in San Francisco, where her father was an insurance man and stringer for the New York Dramatic Mirror...
Hard by the Tees. This raffish end product of Britain's welfare state was born in the mind of a onetime butcher's helper who strayed into the graphic arts quite by chance. Britain's largest daily, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,631,000), wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees...
...delighted surprise of the Mirror, which doubted that Andy's appeal would survive south of the Midlands, he was instantly popular all over the island. Soon the strip crossed to the mainland and picked up such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...
...Common Fondness. British newspapers do not share syndication income with the artist, as do U.S. papers, and Andy has enriched the Mirror rather more than his creator. Reg Smythe does not even get anything from the considerable sale of Andy Capp books. But Smythe, who draws a $25,000 salary that is handsome by British standards, hardly considers himself shortchanged. He has just renewed his Mirror contract for another five years, and he remains as fond of Andy as Andy is of himself. After all, it was Artist Smythe who put these words in the mouths of Andy...