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...Caniff seldom beats out Ham Fisher's hammy Joe Palooka or Chic Young's just-folksy Blondie. But his comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name. For U.S. publishers, that was enough...
...Wrote Steinbeck: "When my grandchildren speak of their sugarplum eroticisms I can say, 'You see? This is how it was in my day. This Dragon Lady, with the figure of a debutante (if debutantes have figures) was one of your old man's girl friends...
...John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
...Steinbeck, all of Denmark is at your feet." A customs guard at the border demanded whether Steinbeck carried whiskey (Ans.: "Lots-I live on it"), cigarets (Ans.: "I chain-smoke"), decided: "In your case that's fine, as long as I may have your autograph...
Mexico's movie industry, buoyed up by its success in Latin America, was all set to invade the big U.S. market. John Steinbeck's La Perla (The Pearl), in English and Spanish versions, was shot and cut. RKO would soon distribute it throughout the hemisphere...