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...Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...
...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...
...highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice-shrews Violet and Patty, sharpens her talons on Charlie's ego. "Good Ol' Charlie Brown," purrs Violet as Charlie passes. "Nobody hates him, everybody likes him . . . What a wishy-washy character...
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...