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...fact student riots in the "home of the brave" are now incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands. Harvard University, for example, has yielded two major demonstrations during this past decade (both, of course, in the mild weather of late spring) when students mutinied in 1952 for "Pogo for President" and in 1961 for retaining Latin-inscribed diplomas...
...amazed to find a great omission in your article on trading stamps [Oct. 26]. Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, has solved...
...Pogo, Walt Kelly's pseudo-sophisticated comic strip, spoke a kind of Pig-Russian and bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev. He even talked like Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
Three Canadian newspapers-the Toronto, Ont., Globe and Mail, the Kingston, Ont., Whig-Standard and the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post-dropped the pig-goat sequence. (As a substitute the Globe and Mail reprised a Pogo swampland series from the 1940s.) In the U.S., the Toledo Blade temporarily killed Kelly. And in Tokyo, the English language Asahi Evening News, having run the sequence for 11 days, agreed to drop the rest of it after a protest from the Soviet embassy...
...late U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...