Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sidney Smith, 58, comic strip artist ("The Gumps'') ; instantly, when his automobile collided with another and crashed against a telegraph pole (his head was almost torn off) ; near Harvard, Ill. He had just signed a five-year renewal contract for "The Gumps" at $150,000 a year...
...snake phobia, it is many a long year since the Kansas City Star has printed news of reptiles (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930). When references to snakes are unavoidable, the Star generally compromises by identifying them as "moving objects." Last week Star editors were horrified when a syndicate comic strip, "Moon Mullins," revealed Uncle Willie's wife Mamie as a onetime snake charmer, showed her performing in a freak show with a huge serpent coiled around her neck. Hastily the resourceful Star substituted non-serpentine "Moon Mullins" strips from...
Most notable feature of The Presbyterian Guardian is that it contains the first religious comic strip, drawn by Philip Saint, 23, pious son of Lawrence B. Saint, famed Pennsylvania maker of stained glass. First issue of the strip introduced its hero, Gary, and his mother, Mrs. Evans and his small brother Dave, all "Bible-believing Christians" (see cut). Bidding her son good-by as he departs for college, Mrs. Evans says: "Remember, prayer changes things." Replies Gary: "Yes, mother, and pray that I'll live clean and speak boldly so that many students will be led to Christ...
...Werner in his Bryan: "He also devoted part of his time to delivering lectures for a Florida real estate company at $250 a lecture. Bryan sat in an arm chair on a float and talked to the crowd that lined the shore of a lagoon. A narrow strip of water separated Bryan from the crowd on shore. A large cotton umbrella sheltered his bald head, and sometimes he wore a broad-brimmed white hat. He joked with his audiences about his frequent campaigns for President, and he spoke to them of the general glories of the Florida climate. After...
...high mark, the equivalent of a rolling load of 130 tons or of nine monster plows cutting 14-inch furrows, the East's Flaxie & Dan on their first trial pulled hard, started the load, got it half way down the 27 1/2-ft. strip they had to cover. Then they suddenly stopped, mistaking an overexcited spectator's shout of GO! GO! for WHOA! WHOA...