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...Sugar & Spice. In 1948, Sparky sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post: a smug little boy sitting on the end of a chaise longue with his feet propped on a footstool. Not long after, Sparky was hired to do a weekly cartoon panel that ran wherever the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press could find room for it. Called Li'I Folks, the panel included some forerunners of Peanuts, but it was doomed. After turning it out for nearly a year, Sparky asked the editor for more money. His answer: "No." Then how about giving...
...right about the name, Sparky was off to a fast start with one of his first strips, which forecast, in a way, all that was to come. In the first two panels, Patty walks down the street reciting the feminist verse: "Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice." In the third panel, she spots Charlie Brown and slugs him. In the fourth, she continues on her way, finishing the verse: "And that's what little girls are made...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who tied Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemütlich...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemiitlich...
...Lifeline. Encouraged by such prospects, Captain John Hawkins sailed south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and spice. The Spanish authorities-whose custom it was to entertain a foreigner with "a stake thrust through his fundament and so out at his necke"-sharpened their preparations. In 1568, Hawkins and his flotilla of six vessels were accosted by "thirteene greate shippes." In the ensuing scuffle, Hawkins lost four vessels...