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Died. George Baker, 59, creator of the World War II cartoon anti-hero Sad Sack; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A draftsman at Walt Disney studios, Baker found his vocation only after joining the Army in 1941. His haplessly snafued Sad Sack became the image of the downtrodden G.I. doomed to a perpetual losing battle with his own top sergeants. Said Baker: "Many people lead a life of disappointment in one way or another. Nobody is completely happy or contented...
...elopes with Maometto, but persuaded by loyalty to her homeland, she returns to Corinth and stabs herself to death as Maometto's troops enter and sack the burning city...
...this novel. The universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston stage routines. They are the butt of exquisitely timed mal functions. Their umbrella refuses to open just as the rain, "acting on behalf of the universal malignity," comes down in buckets...
...Commissioner, such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence on the force - his father was a cop, but standards have slipped since the old days - Moriarty overplays Bo so desperately that it seems unlikely he could have remained a policeman even...
...lucky, the new soldier is assigned to a facility that looks more like a garden apartment complex than a military barracks. Completely air-conditioned, the buildings are equipped with color television, single beds, spacious lockers and individual toilet facilities that old Sad Sack, the perennial latrine orderly, would not believe. So far, only one of these super-barracks has been constructed at Fort Jackson, but three others are being built or are scheduled for erection, enough to handle half of the 4,000 male recruits that stream through the gates every month...