Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
...boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country with the speed and efficiency of a horde of African army ants...
Only last month, in a comic strip, when Daddy Warbucks had to have a blood transfusion, Little Orphan Annie had a frantic time finding a donor with the right blood type. But that desperate, urgent situation, fairly common in modern medicine, may soon be out of date...
Died. Walter White Drew, 55, original model for "Uncle Walt" of the comic strip Gasoline Alley; in Chicago. He was the brother-in-law of the strip's artist, Frank King...
...into an acceptable and amusing musicomedy. Mary Martin polishes off a tuneful score in her best My Heart Belongs to Daddy manner. She also carries the ball around the Hays office right end with a song about how she got her start, which permits her to repeat her strip tease that first lit the domes of Broadway's Bald-Head Row in 1938. Connie Boswell and Rochester (Eddie Anderson, Jack Benny's valet) run first-rate interference for her with a punchy song&-dance number called Sand in My Shoes...