Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some day, however, says Capp, he will be unable to restrain himself from giving TIME (or LIME, whose slogan is, "If you can't read it-eat it!") the full treatment which is customary in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Says he: "I'm surprised I haven't done a thorough job on it before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves...
...most striking work of the evening was the Piano Sonata in G which received its first public performance by the composer, Paul Des Marais, instructor in music. The breadth of development in the opening movement is what impressed me first. Here is a modern composer who does not strip his form to its barest outlines. The piano is treated in almost orchestral terms, yielding in quick succession highly contrasting effects of sonority, dynamics, and range. The opening theme of the first movement is violent and harsh but it soon alternates with some warmly expressive passages that reminded me of Brahms...
...face or matching them gun for gun. In last year's Vinhyen and Dongtrieu battles, the late great Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny had shown briefly what could be done if the Viet Minh Communists could be tricked out into open combat. Now, at the encircled air strip of Nasan, 117 miles west of Hanoi, there was a chance that Communist General Giap would repeat his earlier mistakes...
...hard-working plot of Time Out for Ginger is both a little too silly and a little too jumbled, and the teen-age daughters not only are comic-strip themselves, but are raucously wooed by comic striplings. Yet a good deal of Time Out is thoroughly amiable, and a fair amount of the show is amusing...
There were no calls from readers, the Canadian Press, or from reporters on competing papers. Of the Sun's own 50-man editorial staff, only one reporter spotted the repetition. After the third day, the Sun confessed its trick. "If the paper omits a comic strip . . . football scores or the horse-racing handicap column, the office switchboard begins winking frantically . . . But the readers' reaction to seeing the same Korean war story three times was deafening silence...