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That is why TIME goes to such lengths to tell you how people in the news look and sound and act (even when they are "viper-thin" or "hen-shaped"). We think by helping you size up the actors we can also help you size up the news. And we think that giving you a visual handle by which to remember the actors also helps you remember the news in which they played the leading part...
...that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin'!"). In the mid '30s De Beck abandoned Spark Plug, subordinated Barney, brought bodacious Hillbilly Snuffy Smith (also a slangy shorty) to the fore...
Swart, small General Ricarte is a legend in the Philippines. As commander of the province of Cavite in 1898, he dubbed himself "The Viper," fought valiantly against the U.S. army of occupation. Generalissimo Aguinaldo finally took the oath of allegiance to the U.S., but not General Ricarte. He fled to Japan...
There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...
Once only, The Viper broke his vow. In Tokyo's great earthquake of 1923, he whimpered himself on to a U.S. warship anchored off Yokohama...