Word: ol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade that has seen much of the fun leak out of the funnies, a Popsicleset Punchinello named Good Ol' Charlie Brown has endeared himself to millions of newspaper readers with a quietly wistful brand of humor that is both fresh and worldlywise. Supported by an all-moppet cast and a flop-eared dog named Snoopy, Charlie Brown is the moonfaced, star-crossed hero of the fast-rising Peanuts strip. Less than eight years old. the seven-days-a-week strip is carried by 355 U.S. dailies and some 40 foreign papers, and has overflowed into such profitable sidelines...
Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...
Unlike the staid A.P., a nonprofit cooperative owned by its member newspapers, the United Press for half a century has aggressively sold its product to all comers. Thus, it has never wavered from Founder E. W. ("Damned Ol Crank") Scripps's belligerent belief that only a profitable news service can achieve editorial impartiality. The first major U.S. news service to prosper as a commercial undertaking, the U.P. today is the world's most enterprising wire-news merchant, an international giant serving 1,560 U.S. newspapers and 3,270 other clients in the U.S. and 71 foreign countries (estimated...
...pimply kids clumping over cobbled streets, gossip-mongering concierges, young lovers in the Bois de Boulogne, and stunning panoramas of the city bathed in soft blue light. Men goggled in admiration at the stylish hustle on the sidewalks of the Champs-Elysées and inside the salon ol Designer Jean Desses, as the camera ogled with them some magnificent forms and fashions...
...Eisenhower Administration's policy toward Latin America gets articulate interpretation in the current issue of LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The writer is Henry Holland, the State Department's Latin American Affairs chief from 1954 until he resigned last August to join the Manhattan law firm of Anderson & Roberts. Holland's main points...