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Last week, Edmond Joseph Moran, a small (5 ft. 6 in.) man who looks more like a drapery salesman than the boss of the world's biggest tugboat company, prepared to poke the snubbed noses of two 194-ft. tugs into the Dutchmen's private pond...
Season's Greetings. In New Britain, Conn., a five-year-old boy took a poke at a department-store Santa Claus, explained to his horrified mother: "He didn't bring me the bicycle he promised me last year...
...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...
Bergen-McCarthy (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Edgar and Charlie poke fun at Missouri Governor Phil Donnelly and Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel...
Glass Jaw. In Vidalia, Ga., Mack Crawford, weaving his way out of the Silver Moon bar, took a poke at a big guy who was holding the door shut, smashed his fist and the door's full-length mirror...