Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched...
Last week the Navy told how it solves the target problem with Pogo, a cheap gadget developed at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. When the control center at White Sands Proving Ground wants a target for its deadly missiles to kill, it signals the crew of a target launcher parked out on the desert. A small, solid propellant rocket roars into the sky. When it reaches 40,000 feet or higher, a spring pushes its nose off, releasing a parachute whose silk is covered with a thin film of silver. The silver reflects radar waves like...
When a catlike creature named Simple J. Malarkey first entered the swampy world of Pogo, readers of Walt Kelly's comic strip noticed that he bore a marked resemblance to Joseph R. McCarthy of Washington. D.C. Any doubts they might have had as to Malarkey's true identity vanished a fortnight ago with the introduction of another Pogo character, an Indian named Charlie, who was pictured kicking an acquaintance below the belt...
Last week, after a look at advance proofs of the Pogo strip, editors of the strongly anti-McCarthy Providence Journal decided that Cartoonist Kelly had gone too far. Said Managing Editor Michael J. Ogden: "Kelly may be heading into deep waters . . . We still intend to express our views on the editorial page, but we vastly prefer to keep those views on that page . . . We shall drop Pogo on any days when his McCarthy cast appears...
...Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed "the Pogo Stick," the XFY-1 is the Navy's vertical-takeoff fighter. Standing upright on the tips of its delta wings and two big vertical stabilizers, the odd craft was tethered by six cables to control it, if necessary...