Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comics were hit first. Outgrowing the moppet market, they had tapped a ready-made public: the soldiers loved them. At the peak, when anything from Supersnipe to Super Duck would move, sales had hit 40 million a month. Now they were down to 27 million, and still skidding. War-born pulps were going begging, too. One firm, whose stable of magazines goes up & down at the drop of a dime, had dumped 64 titles (Green Mask Comics, Sleepy Time Stories, etc.). But buyers still had some 1,200 titles to choose from...
...Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...
...once, don't blame Hollywood censorship. Cain's super-sexed passages were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...
...Super Turbo-Encabulator
Serenely ensconced in a luxurious, three-room suite at the super-ritzy Hotel Moscow, he talked amiably to U.S. correspondents. He had had several long talks with Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky, Soviet Information Chief, and had called on Foreign Minister Molotov. Purred Browder: "I have been received like an old and trusted friend of the Soviet Union...