Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...
While millions of U.S. newspaper readers cheered, a comic-strip character had his 21st birthday last week. He was Skeezix Wallet, star of Frank King's saga of homey, U.S. middle-class life, Gasoline Alley. Unlike most other comic-strip characters, Skeezix has grown every day since a flabbergasted Uncle Walt found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King...
...contract. Merging with Otis would not only put J. & L. on the Great Lakes (Otis' home is Cleveland), but give it a more nearly complete range of products-at least in peace time. Although J. & L. makes almost everything but rails, it has always been light on sheet & strip, has never had much automobile business. Little Otis is a sheet & strip specialist, has sold more than half its output to auto and parts makers...
...moments, feeling absolutely certain of death, he learned this: "It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. Your body belongs to you: it is not you. . . . The flames of the house, of the diving plane strip away the flesh; but they strip away the worship of the flesh too. Man ceases to be concerned with himself: he recognizes of a sudden what he forms part of. If he should die, he would not be cutting himself off from his kind, but making himself one with them...
With Miss Chaney thus in view, the House really gave tongue. For four hours Congressman after Congressman lit into Miss Chaney, Friend Eleanor and OCD. Bayed Missouri's Philip Bennett: "If [she] is worth $4,600 a year, then Sally Rand, strip-tease artist from my own Congressional district, ought to be employed at once because she would, on this scale, be worth at least $25,000 a year to civilian defense." In full-throated chorus, the House voted to forbid the use of civilian defense funds for "instructions in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical...