Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed, egg-bald "General Bruno" is a comic-strip character who can do with his one arm what most ordinary mortals would be proud to do with two. In the Bell Syndicate's strip, "Miss Fury" the General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
...counterpart in mysterious General Gunther Niedenfuhr, onetime German Military Attache in Argentina, subsequently Military Attache in Brazil. About the time that General Bruno was getting his mechanized army set for battle, General Niedenfuhr was bounced back to Berlin with other Axis diplomats in South America. But, like his comic-strip colleague, the General had done some good work for his bosses while in Brazil. Last week Brazilians were beginning to learn what lay behind his ingratiating fagade...
...Commander Noah Adair, the Angry's captain, pulled his weatherproof hood tighter over his red thatch, drew the voluminous coat closer around his tall, lanky frame. The bridge, where he stood swaying with the ship's roll, was open to rain, wind and spray, except for a strip of canvas lashed to the rail and another strip overhead...
...month readers were discovering a new wrinkle in literary digestion. The Book-of-the-Month Club announced a new literary short cut for those who wish to read books, but not whole books. Through King Features Syndicate, the Club will release its best-sellers in the form of cartoon strips: 24-30 cartooned installments per novel, with 500 words of text under each strip (about one-fifteenth of the published novel). The first cartoonovel is Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, story of an escape from a Nazi concentration camp...
...subscriber called the Herald Tribune to complain. Told about the strike, he asked to have the comic strip Mr. & Mrs, read to him over the phone. A Tribune man obliged...