Word: slyest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published in the overseas edition, but printed in their 18 domestic editions, is the C.I.O. News's slyest attempt at sugarcoating: a comic strip called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed...