Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howdy Doody, NBC's popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared...
...divided Korea social reforms would not be the new government's biggest or most immediate problem. A bigger problem was division itself. In North Korea, Soviet occupation had created a puppet Communist government with an army of more than 100,000 equipped with Soviet guns, vehicles and even a few aircraft. Communist Puppet Dictator Kim Il Sung could use those forces to "unify" Korea whenever occupation troops withdrew...
...asked for the chance to work with Turnabout, which had just started. Its name means what it says: it's two theaters in one. At one end of the hall a puppet show is staged; when it ends, the revue begins at the other. The audienca sits on slipcovered streetcar seats, reverses them between shows; front seats for the puppet show are back seats for the revue (a nearsighted person has to sit in the center, or decide which he would rather see well, Elsa or the puppets...
Television, always solid with sport fans, has proved that it can also score a hit with youngsters. NBC's "Howdy Doody," a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children's special delight...
...Premier, spent the war in Moscow while the Czech government in exile in London was valiantly resisting Nazi aggression. He was one of the original signers of the abolition of the Comintern in 1943. Some of the other signers were Togliatti, Dimintrov, Pauker, Tito, Thorez, and all other Communist puppet leaders today...