Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jasper and the Watermelons (Pal; Paramount) is a new departure in the field of U.S.* animated cartooning: it substitutes carved puppets and miniature sets for the drawn figures and backgrounds of the customary animated cartoon. Jasper, sixth of a series of ten-minute shorts which Paramount calls Puppetoons, is the first to enter successfully the animated cartoon's best realm-fantasy...
...facile son Jonathan, wrinkled old Editor Daniels, in his black planter's hat and elder-statesman tie, was a figure who easily evoked oldtime reminiscences. A full-fledged editor at 18, he had tangled in many a garrulous crusade against North Carolina railroads, tobacco and power companies. Great pal of William Jennings Bryan (of whom he wrote an 8,000-word obituary in six hours) and a hard-shelled Dry, he banned liquor on Navy ships...
Forceful Mr. Fay, who has never sought the limelight, soon rose to fame. He became a big shot in labor circles, an employer, a pal of Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Charges of racketeering were frequently hurled at him, never stuck. He was named as a suspect in the shooting and killing of a New York labor leader who defied him. (The case was never brought to trial.) Last year, when David Dubinsky tried to force an anti-racketeering resolution through an A.F. of L. convention, Mr. Fay was said to have slugged him. ("There was a little...
Patricia Peardon gives a thoroughly unaffected, disarming performance as Judy, while Moss Hart's direction pries every possible giggle and snicker out of the script. Gravel-voiced Lenore Lonergan as Judy's bosom pal, Fuffy, and sister Lois's motley crew of boy friends, draw several of the deeper belly laughs. Everyone at the Wilbur, on either side of the footlights, is having a wonderful time this week, but hurry over there before "Junior Miss" leaves Saturday for a long stay in New York...
...Admiral Blandy, whose consuming passions are ordnance and gunnery. When he was gunnery officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico from 1927 to 1929, the battleship twice won the Battle-Efficiency Pennant ("Meatball" to the sailors) as well as a pair of gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting fish in a bucket...