Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacher: What is the difference between the body and soul...
Johnny (vacantly): The body is mortal and material, the soul...
Teacher (impatiently): Yes, and the soul...
Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
...weekend, in the summer of 1950, while the radio hums with reports of war in Korea, Carlotta throws a party in East Hampton for a speculator in money and models, a fellow-traveling movie director, an interior decorator with Lesbian appetites, and the decorator's religious husband and soul-sick daughter. Son Pete finds them all disagreeable, but can't quite...