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Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthronement | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...have left Kevin "The Bull" O'Donnell unpublished for several weeks. We caught him admiring the new character in Smilin' Jack. Walking through the Statler lobby, "Bullit Bobby" Malone and Ted Lutz met two old friends--Sure, we know, boys...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/24/1945 | See Source »

...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Keep Smilin' (John Kirby; Victor). A primitive, mournful chant to the words "Let's keep laughing, let's be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

This gossamer geewhillikin is played to the last teardrop against a pastoral background of acres of olde English sets. Occasionally Songbird MacDonald comes down to earth long enough to warble Smilin' Through, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes and other songs of long ago. She is in good voice. The same cannot be said of her husband, blond Gene Raymond, who acts as if he cannot make up his mind what century he is performing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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