Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Camouflage. Finally, Bill the Check Passer rose to speak, and his argument was just the sort of thing his audience understood. "Guests of Norfolk, voluntary and involuntary," he began, "a free national health service will not make medical services better, but worse. The neurotics and malingerers will swamp our doctors and make it impossible for them to tend the really sick. I have been an unwilling native in a socialist Utopia for some time, and I know it will not work . . . This talk of free service is just political camouflage...
Pogo is a bright-eyed, cuddly little critter, as amiably shapeless as a Teddy bear, with a head like a hairy zero, a nose like an overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom...
...past three years thousands of American have been picking up their newspapers and turning to the comic section. After a chuckle filled five minutes in the heart of the Okefenokee swamp, they feel fortified against the news the front page has to offer...
...Kelly's improvements on the comic strip routine is to run two stories in each strip. While the characters are following one in Kelly's own brand of swamp talk, they act out another. The first provides the thread of a series from strip to strip, and the second gives a complete tale all in one strip...
Cohane concludes with the fortunate reminder that football is still a game little boys and students can play. He maintains that Yale, which led college football into the swamp has now found the proper perspective in amateurism. One would like to think Cohane is right. If every Old Blue, however, reads this tale of the days when Yale meant football, and weeps for Herman, then scares up some more talent for the Fat Man, Yale's amateurism might well become as mythical as Frank Merriwell...