Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor. When he went to Toledo in 1946, as director of the newly established Toledo Mental Hygiene Center, he met a local resident named Allen Saunders, who does the continuity for successful comic strips himself (Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Steve Roper). Saunders encouraged Dallis, put him in touch with Chicago's Publishers Syndicate and two artists who do the final drawings. So Rex Morgan, M.D. was born...
...Mirror's Nick Kenny came valiantly, if ineptly, to Godfrey's defense. Kenny vaguely hinted that there was still another conspiracy, this time by "the proCommunists who do too much of the hiring & firing in radio and TV and haven't been able to touch Godfrey," and begged his public to remember that Godfrey "rates the patience of the audience because any doctor will tell you that no man is emotionally stable until a year after an operation such as the one Arthur went through." Colonel Ora Young, regional administrator of the CAA, who received the protest...
...boint when he said, 'Al, I think you've got a touch of myopia...
...Common Touch. Vice President Nixon and his wife Pat (she hasn't used the Thelma since grade school) live in a $41,000 home in Washington's Spring Valley. Their two exuberant daughters, "Tricia," 7, and Julie, 5, wake Nixon every morning at 7:15. From then until after breakfast is his only time to play with them. At 8 he leaves for the Capitol and a full day of meetings, handshaking, appointments and phone calls...
Fast Watch. Dowling's light touch is the result of heavy work. He puts in more than ten hours a day (six days a week) to turn out six cartoons. He attends the daily morning Trib editorial conference, and though he rarely gets his subject there, the run-through helps him focus on the main news. After the 11 a.m. conference, he races to make his 4:30 p.m. deadline. Dowling always keeps his watch set an hour and a half fast. "Sometimes," says he, "I look at" my watch and it says 4 o'clock...