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Paper World. Prior to this happy time, there had been the dismal Age of the Digest (mentioned with good-natured scorn), in which the effort of the intellectuals was to reduce knowledge to capsule form, and in which lectures and articles were turned out in a wild spirit of competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Game | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Beside these artists, the 20th Century cartoonists whose work made up a good three fourths of the show often seemed little more than hurried illustrators of passing quips. Yet the best of them, typified by Punch's present Editor Cyril K. Bird (portraits of England's beleaguered middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Time for Comedy | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

No Dumbellelski. The story of Ann and Joe really started in 1921, when young Reporter-Cartoonist Hammond Edward Fisher met a Wilkes-Barre prizefighter named Joe, a Polish-American youngster with a fair left, a good right, a soft heart, and no grammar at all. An idea hit Fight Fan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. & Mrs. Palooka | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

With the best of intentions, according to Miss Sayers, the churches have managed to portray "the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore-and this in the Name of One who assuredly never bored a soul in those 33 years during which He passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Everyday Dogma | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

¶ In a softball game between two inmate teams at Massachusetts' Plymouth county jail, the ball was belted over the wall. Unwilling to hold up the game, good-natured Guard Robert Woodward opened the gate so that a trusty could retrieve it, whereupon four prisoners knocked him down and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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