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...Pogo is a pleasant kind of possum. The star of Walt Kelly's comic strip (syndicated in 519 papers), is a wide-eyed, ingenuous little critter without a contentious bone in his body, and so. by and large, are all his swampland buddies. But now and then Artist Kelly, who has a sharp way of making a point, converts his strip into a sounding board. In 1954 he invented a new character called Simple J. Malarkey. who looked and fulminated so much like the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy that several newspapers took instant offense. e.g., the Orlando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Goes Pogo | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...ostensible tribute to National Edu cation Week. Pogo began sounding off fortnight ago on a subject of extreme sen sitivity to Kelly's fourscore clients in the South: school integration. "Some places 'round here," observed Pogo to a butter fly pal, "education is perty well finished." This observation was too much for John H. Colburn. managing editor of the Rich mond, Va. Times-Dispatch. He ordered the offending Pogoism routed out of the strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Goes Pogo | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Orient Hand | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...clear shot. If the city administration attempts, as it may, to equate the Lampoon's prank with the death of the MIT fraternity pledge and tries to make an example of the poor Poonie, hostility between town and gown will reach the level attained after 1952's Pogo riot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Santa Slugger | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...outdone by Russian high jumpers and their Pogo-stick shoes (TIME, Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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