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Word: stripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joining wall is a large window and above the picture, between it and the ceiling, is to be a long, narrow strip of frosted glass. This glass I liked to be clear, transparent as to see some trees moving their chanches in the wind together with the picture. The indoors and outdoors to be one, nature and a man-made symbol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bayer's Description of 'Verdure' | 11/15/1950 | See Source »

...Harvard men have got gams too," Miss La Rose told the CRIMSON. "I want to see them strip for action," she said. The casting auditions will be held this afternoon and tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: La Rose Due Here | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

Capp sniped at Fisher through Li'l Abner. When Fisher had his nose remodeled, Capp gleefully insinuated a horse named "Ham's Nose-bob" into the strip. Last April he wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about a cartoonist who had once employed him. He named no names, simply titled his piece, "I Remember Monster." The sound of battle finally became too loud, and the respective syndicates called for a peace treaty-which was gravely consummated last August by proxies for each side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Manhattan is also the seat of Capp Enterprises, a firm devoted to the vastly remunerative business of commercializing the byproducts of Capp's comic strips. This odd institution's headquarters on East 45th Street (it also has a branch office in Montreal) is presided over by brother Jerry and has a desk for brother Elliot, who also runs a publishing firm and writes the action for Abbie & Slats, a strip which Capp originally founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Capp Enterprises not only licenses the manufacture of such direct offshoots of the strip as Shmoos and Kigmies, but more than a hundred other products, including Li'l Abner orangeade, Daisy Mae blouses, Li'l Abner corncob pipes and Li'l Abner skonk hats. A good guess at the gross profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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