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...comic character was blown up into a full scale controversy last night when Leverett dwellers massed in front of a Crimson Key poster of "Pogo" advertising the May 9 Regatta weekend. Artist Walt Kelly earlier had granted permission to the Leverett dance committee to use his syndicated comic 'possum as a theme for its April 26 dance, the "Pogo Fish Fry and Stomp...
Cinemactors with an urge to rough it build their homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports...
Tashlin is a Hollywood director because he likes to eat. He is a cartoonist because that's the only way he can tell people about themselves. His The Possum That Didn't and The Bear That Wasn't may be remembered as two of the freshest books of drawings to appear on the absurd ideas of people and animals. His latest, The World That Isn't, is just as clever, it not as original...
...newest comic-strip character with intellectual appeal is a possum called Pogo. Born three years ago in the moribund New York Star* Pogo has multiplied himself with possumly precocity, and currently appears in 210 U.S. newspapers. Cartoonist Walt Kelly has now collected the best-known adventures of Pogo into a book which all but filled Santa's pouch with little marsupials. In fact, during the month of December, Pogo has been the fastest-selling book...
Otherwise, the volume is perfect. Kelly drew some new portraits of his pet 'possum for the covers and title pages that picture his quaint whimsical attitude toward life...