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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tugboat Tycoon | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Bergen-McCarthy (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Edgar and Charlie poke fun at Missouri Governor Phil Donnelly and Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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