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There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Pogo, the Puny' Possum Punster | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...Pogo's universal appeal lies in the double nature of the strips. To those who follow Kelly, a satirical view of the world greater than Jonathan Swift's and Al Capp's is presented. To those who don't go that deep, Kelly's corn and his play on words both receive a new treatment with results that reach the peak in adult humor...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Pogo, the Puny' Possum Punster | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...those few who may have been living in caves for the last few years and haven't met Pogo and his friends, this book is an excellent introduction. To those who discovered Pogo late, it's an excellent collection of Kelly's early best. And to anyone who has joined the Okefenokee Glee Club, Perloo, and Arts Society, it is a bible and handbook...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Pogo, the Puny' Possum Punster | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...play and the favorite's role, at 12-5, not so much because he had one of the better mounts in Battle Morn, but because he had already won the Kentucky Derby four times. Said one trainer: "I'd bet on Arcaro if he were riding a pogo stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seeing Is Believing | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Kefauver crime hunt was over -at least for the time being Senator Kefauver himself relaxed, showed his daughter how to ride a pogo-stick. The country still had crime on its mind, and if half the activity of last week was genuine, it was going to make life a little less comfortable for the gamblers, extortionists, hoods, crooked cops and corrupt politicians whose faces or names flitted into view of the Kefauver committee's TV cameras. It was, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: After Kefauver | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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