Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town blossomed with posters saying: "Honor-Pride-Save the Whites!" and "Save Your Kids! Prevent Race Riots, Murder, Dynamitings and Hangings!" Assistant School Superintendent W. H. Oliver called for police protection after a paper fireball was thrown, burning, on his front porch. Having passed safely through registration day, Nashville is now braced for anything. Says Superintendent Bass: "Our board members are shaking in their boots. There's all sorts of submerged opposition to this." Added a Negro lawyer: "With a lunatic like Kasper around, anything can happen...
Health insurance, a boon to no million people in the U.S., is regarded by more and more doctors as a paper-spewing ogre. Reason: the torrent of technical information requested by insurance forms is cutting into doctors' valuable time for treating patients, leading directly to higher costs for medical care...
...Unrealistic. When physicians cannot afford extra help, nurses, technicians, receptionists and doctors' wives are pressed into service to roll back the paper tide. The physician himself must read all the reports and sign them, must give technical information that only he can supply (some insurance companies even require reports in the doctor's own handwriting). Says an Atlanta surgeon: "I could spend a whole day right now, just dictating answers to this stack of forms here on my desk. But if I did that, how am I going to care for the people over at the hospital waiting...
...plainly see, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp dotes on needle-etched caricatures, e.g., Slobbovian Statesman John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik. As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...
...more than the Des Moines Tribune could stand. The paper (circ. 136,455) stiffly informed readers last week that it was discontinuing the current Mary Worth sequence because it was a "thinly disguised attack on the creator of another comic strip." Huffed a special announcement: "The editors of the Tribune believe that readers want to be entertained by comic strips and are not interested in the jealousies and rivalries that exist between comic strip creators...