Word: stamm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thriller which lacks only the zither-strumming of The Third Man. A secret is beaten out of a stubborn woman; a doublecrosser is shot dead in a forest; a valuable convoy of goods is lost, found, lost again. Throughout this tapestry of violence, Asch and his "good" operators -Kowalski, Stamm, Soeft-match wits with the "bad" operators, Hauk and Greifer. Both sides use the naive U.S. occupation forces for their own purposes, and Asch and company even capture a prisoner-of-war camp from its U.S. guards in order to kill the villainous Hauk...
...years Chicago Cartoonist Russell Stamm, 40, drew his comic strip Scarlet O'Neil without attracting much attention. Then, two years ago, into the big-city adventures in the strip ambled Stainless Steel, a Texas sheriff far from home. He had flowing blond hair and the physique of a Michelangelo statue. "In general," drawled Stainless, "heroics is mah business." His business soon proved so successful that the number of papers taking the strip from the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate rose from 126 to 148 (including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most...
Sense of Duty. The reason for Stainless' popularity, says Cartoonist Stamm, is that he is all comic-strip heroes "rolled into one bundle" and a full-fledged satire on many of them. For example, when the police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks...
Cartoonist Stamm, who once worked as assistant to Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), brought Stainless into his Scarlet O'Neil strip because he was tired of straight adventure comics, now makes $40,000 a year. In the dead-serious world of comic-strip nerves, Cartoonist Stamm has a simple reason for Stainless' popularity: "His saving grace is that he isn't deadly serious like most heroes. He's got a sense of humor...
Harvard awarded 1884 degrees on June 21, 1928, with 659 going to seniors. And four men of '28 received the highest honor awarded to a Harvard graduate, a summa cum laude degree. They were: Edgar Malone Hoover, V. Samuel Seidel, Russell Thornley Sharpe, and Israel Solomon Stamm. The coming years would be hard, but the Class had Harvard diplomas, and that would help.Twenty-five years afterward members of the Class get together to discuss their reunion. WILLIAM SALTONSTALL, DON HURLEY, FRED WEED, and BOB GREGG were photographer at a pre-reunion meeting last December. Saltonstall and Weed are both headmasters...