Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McKinnon felt confident of at least 30,000 circulation. His news and features lineup: United Press, Dorothy Thompson, Drew Pearson, Samuel Grafton, Walter Lippmann, Superman, Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka, others...
Better than most, the Chinese knew that the Jap was no superman. But the enemy kept on trying in his own unsubtle way to build up the myth. Even when U.S. airmen shot up Jap craft over such bombers' targets as Canton and Hong Kong, he kept at it. In such cases he collected airmen who had been shot down, paraded them blindfolded through the streets to convince the Chinese of Jap superiority...
Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
Born. To Corporal Jerry (Superman author) Siegel, 29, and Mrs. Bella Siegel, 22: their first superbaby, Michael; in Cleveland. Weight: nine pounds...
Senator Rafael Avila, head of Mexico's Truman Committee: "Nobody but a superman could solve the whole problem...