Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown's portly father sent him off to Rugby in 1834, when Dr. Arnold was just starting to strip the school of some of its more brutal and debasing traditions. Little Tom found plenty of brutality nonetheless. He faced it straightforwardly, never whimpering, never compromising...
...Omaha, 17 parking meters were wrenched from the curb and spirited away. In Savannah, an estimated 150 meters were broken open and looted. In both cities, police voiced the dark suspicion that Dick Tracy himself, the fearless comic-strip detective, had inspired these petty robberies. The strip, which appears in some 350 papers, has been showing a gang of teen-age hoodlums at work yanking up meters and taking them to a remote spot to rifle them. Tracy's creator, Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Chester Gould, pleaded not guilty. Said he: "Most of the crimes that old Dick Tracy contends...
...best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
...strip's gentle satire on mortal failings was never a big crowd-pleaser; at its peak in 1946, only 76 papers carried
Barnaby. Shortly after, Cartoonist Johnson himself tired of drawing the strip and turned it over to Collaborators Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, though he kept his hand in on & off, began writing the dialogue again in 1948. Somehow much of Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy...