Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, a group of comic-strip addicts formed the American Society for the Advancement of the Piebald Eyeball, solemnly pledged themselves always to pencil dots in the center of Little Orphan Annie's eyes before turning to the sports page...
YOUR RADIO COLUMN [TIME, MAY 12] STATES THAT A NEWSPAPER CARTOON STRIP CONCERNING BUDDY BEAR IS BEING DRAWN BY THE ARTISTS OF SUPERMAN. I KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY SUCH PROPOSED CARTOON FEATURE AND WOULD APPRECIATE AN EXPLANATION. PLEASE INFORM YOUR READERS SHUSTER AND I ARE NOT DRAWING BUDDY BEAR...
...nearing 70, Author Sinclair can still reel off his special Lanny-brand of history and hokum at comic-strip clip. "All I have to do is turn the spigot," he once explained, "and the water flows." And, though critics and historians may not like him, Lanny has a public. In Europe-and in Russia (where Sinclair is considered a major U.S. literary figure, along with William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell) the Lanny Budd volumes are becoming almost as well known as Author Sinclair's The Jungle or The Brass Check. Several of the Lanny series have already been published...
...blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected harmlessly by flesh...
Died. Dr. William Moulton Marston, 53, Manhattan psychologist and developer (1915) of the systolic (blood) pressure "Lie Detector"; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A man who never underestimated women, Marston wrote a successful comic strip called Wonder Woman (a sexy female counterpart of Superman); once announced that brunettes are more amorous than blondes; averred that in 1,000 years women would be running...