Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubby Grumman Hellcat, No. 1 Navy fighter craft in World War II, has long been outmoded by later propeller-driven types and by jets. Now the Navy has found a use for some of its old Hellcats: it has turned them into robots to punch the Communist enemy in Korea...
Librettist W. S. Gilbert once trapped the editor of Punch with a bland question: Were many jokes sent in? "Hundreds." said the editor. "Then," snapped Gilbert, "why don't you print some of them?" Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon...
Missing are the traditional cartoons that were merely illustrations for dialogue. Punch's modern jokes are in the drawings themselves, broad, often wildly exaggerated cartoons by Britain's best$#151;Emett, Anton, Sprod, Francois, ffolkes-with only a helpful nudge or two from the captions. And most of the characters are the kind Americans can understand: taxi drivers, sidewalk hawkers, boy geniuses, women in telephone booths, snake charmers, acrobats, psychoanalysts, woolly dogs, fancy new cars and rickety old ones...
...sometimes galls Rocky is in the discipline of training for each fight. It means not seeing his young wife for six to eight weeks of rigidly controlled rest and exercise. "You gotta take orders, you know," Rocky says. "You gotta harden up your body so you can take a punch better. That discourages the other guy." (Discouragingly enough for his opponents, Rocky has never been knocked down in a professional match.) But even the training grind is generally fun for him: "I like to better myself, like an artist would...
...reads: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." *Explained the Rev. R. F. Palm er, one of the motion's sponsors: "We feel this change is necessary to give the commandments more punch. Because people's morals are not good enough today, there is a crying need for the revival of these commandments in everyday life...