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Under the spoon-feeding of Cartoonist Charlie Plumb, Ella Cinders had come a long way in 25 years with United Features Syndicate. From a childhood of downtrodden poverty, homely Ella had grown up into a curly-locked career girl who had married tall & handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip...
...personalities : Herbert Hoover, a high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution; Henry Wallace, a symbol of the idealist gone wild and then sour; Jesse Jones, the hard-nosed banker-baron, Texas Stetson style; Averell Harriman, a symbol of the silver spoon and the itch to do good. If Charles Sawyer was the symbol of anything, he was a symbol of the man who never missed...
...dominance relation between the stimulus and the conditioning environment. . . ." Vag reached in his pocket for another pencil to note this down; he didn't understand it, but it sounded like an important point. There were a number of things in his pocket--a handkerchief, some matches, a spoon he had absentmindedly walked off with from supper three days before--there were also two sharp pieces of cardboard which Vag was unable to identify--he brought them out to have a look. They were two rather battered ticket stubs...
They decided to "get" the sharecropper. Using a spoon and a beer opener, they chipped mortar away from the bricks of their cell in the ancient Attala County jail at Kosciusko. One night they broke out, armed themselves, got loose-mouthed and hot-eyed drunk on white lightning corn liquor, and then headed for the Negro's cabin again...
Throughout the rest of Europe, TV development ranges from the prenatal to the spoon stage. The Netherlands has an experimental station at Eindhoven and is planning another. Soviet Russia boasts transmitters at Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building...