Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown in the happy family strip: the shotgun killing of McMath's father by Sid's wife Anne. It happened in 1947, while McMath was prosecutor. His father, drinking heavily, had threatened Anne; a grand jury called it justifiable homicide...
Reader Terrence O'Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O'Toole: "Censorship? Slow mail service? Forget to pay the syndicate...
Caught In the Glare. Getting to the front, General Walker made his business short and to the point. On a long, flat stretch of road (used at the moment as an improvised landing strip for liaison planes), he went over the situation with one of his division commanders. Then he started visiting colonels and majors. Sometimes, gesturing at map positions with a stubby forefinger, he made crisp suggestions for trimming lines or improving positions. Sometimes he silently absorbed information, left without a word...
Misbombed. Many of the U.S. airmen at this strip last week were war-trained pilots who had been grounded by the Truman Administration's economy decision last year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). These men were sent to Korea to act as ground crews, but when Korean pilots turned out to be short on training to fly the FSI Mustang, Tokyo gave many of the grounded Americans their wings back. When the order was read last week, the pilots said "When do we start...
While Cartoonist Milton Caniff looked proudly on and P-51 Mustangs circled overhead, Colorado's Governor Walter Johnson unveiled a ten-foot, 7½-ton limestone statue of comic-strip Aviator Steve Canyon at the junction of U.S. highways...