Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio's Pardon and Parole Commission...
Breaching the Morice line is the specialty of a 1,600-man F.L.N. commando led by a onetime laborer called "Colonel" Laskri Amara, who prowls the strip between the fence and the Tunisian border. Amara's men operate with insulated wire cutters, drive cattle in to set off the land mines sown along the line and frequently draw French troops away from a genuine breakthrough by first feinting an attack on the fence in a totally different location. By these means-and the simple expedient of sending many convoys south of Tebessa where the Morice line ends-the F.L.N...
...Charlie Brown has endeared himself to millions of newspaper readers with a quietly wistful brand of humor that is both fresh and worldlywise. Supported by an all-moppet cast and a flop-eared dog named Snoopy, Charlie Brown is the moonfaced, star-crossed hero of the fast-rising Peanuts strip. Less than eight years old. the seven-days-a-week strip is carried by 355 U.S. dailies and some 40 foreign papers, and has overflowed into such profitable sidelines as a series of children's comic books and four $1-a-copy collections for grownups that have sold...
...passion for Peanuts unites such varied readers as Poet Carl Sandburg, General Motors' President Harlow Curtice, and a dozen Navymen at the South Pole who crowd around a bulletin board each day for their Peanuts ration. The sparely drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels...
...soon as Sputniks I and II joined Captain Rogers in outer space, editors across the U.S. started signing up in droves for the daily and Sunday strip. By last week 154 U.S. dailies and some 100 foreign papers in 18 languages were hitched to Buck Rogers' spaceship. The syndicate is already feeling crowded by man's real-life advance into space. Sighs Artist Rick Yager, Buck's longtime (16 years) copilot, who works eight weeks in advance: "It's getting pretty hard to think up things that the scientists can't possibly build-right away...