Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coachman's Son. Leonard Hall was born and bred on the North Shore of Nassau County, Long Island, a baronial strip of land that was sacred to Republicans. ("In the Hoover campaign," Hall recalls, "the finance people set quotas for the 48 states and Nassau County.") But the Halls were no landed GOPatricians; Father Franklyn Hall was the coachman at Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay estate, Sagamore Hill. Leonard, the youngest of eight Hall children, was born on Oct. 2, 1900. When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President...
...courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down on a baseball diamond, after buzzing it until he broke up the ball game. Len made the last, 38-mile lap by taxi and boat. "When I saw him then," recalls Gladys, "I knew. And he seemed to, too." The next spring they were married...
These are the questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...
...David Crane and his wellrounded bride (he marries Virginia in strip No. 17) struggle to beam the Light of the World on what the Hall Syndicate calls "an average sort of town filled with average sort of people, all of whom have warm, human stories." Differences in faith, doctrine and observance are passed lightly by, though later sequences are planned to build up a priest and a rabbi as community heroes. Idea for the strip came from Robert M. Hall, president of the Hall Syndicate, though many another syndicate had considered and rejected it as too controversial to handle. Apparently...
Lausche is justly proud of his conservation program. After a bitter struggle with the mining lobby, he pushed through a law to force the strip miners of eastern Ohio to cover up their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message...