Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
Salem said many editors found the strip "offensive" or "not suitable for a family newspaper...
Several other papers throughout the country, including the Chicago Tribune and The Milwaukee Journal, have decided to omit today's strip...
...papers plan to cut all of next week's cartoons. These episodes delve deeper into the relationship between Caucus and Redfern, although none are as visually explicit as today's strip...
Although The Globe has no plans to omit other episodes of the comic strip, some newspapers--including The Chicago Tribune and The Milwaukee Journal--have decided to cut all of next week's cartoons...