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...American homily of good-humored resignation: "Grin and Bear It." In his satirical, topical "Grin and Bear It" cartoon, which runs in more than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried, irascible characters as potbellied, spindle-legged Bascomb Belchmore. Senator Snort, Mr. Snodgrass, and a diabolical moppet named Otis. They are inevitably trapped in ridiculous situations of their own making. In one cartoon Senator Snort, .dressed in flowered waistcoat and bat-winged collar, tells a group of reporters: "I welcome any inquiry into my program for a foreign policy, gentlemen ... I have often wondered what it is myself...
Among Britain's moppet set, he is as famous as Pooh or Piglet, sells faster than Alice, is better known than Kenneth Grahame's Mole. He has appeared in eight 10,000-word books (10 million copies), five Noddy annuals, four strip books, 20 small books, been translated into everything from Swahili to Tamil to Hebrew. Last week, after he made his debut on the stage, London critics had to admit that Noddy in Toyland...
Guinéo, son of Ti-Coyo, is a Martinique moppet with the congenital amorality of a growing barracuda. He comes by his wicked ways naturally, since Daddy Ti-Coyo and Grandfather Cocoyo are born thieves who have come up in their island world by means that normally lead to the guillotine. Now respectable, they live on a prosperous seaside plantation. Their chief idiosyncracy is that they keep Manidou, a huge pet shark, in a specially built tank that has an outlet...
...bought 49% of the stock of Manhattan's Henry Holt publishing house for $760,000 between 1945 and 1951, in the correct belief that the World War II baby crop and the G.I. Bill of Rights meant a big boom in textbooks. With another eye on the moppet market, he bought 4% of Lionel Corp. for $630,000. Field & Stream Magazine ($1,300,000) and the James Heddon's fishing-tackle company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things...
...film tells the outlines of the Wesley story, and shows Wesley, in a series of episodic scenes, developing from a pious moppet learning to read Genesis to a black-robed Oxonian distributing bread to the poor. Wesley's adventures in the colony of Georgia, where he had a commission to instruct godless Indians, are ticked off in a snatch of dialogue, but his search for a divine revelation that would give him "the inward witness" which lies at the heart of Methodism gets serious and moving treatment...