Word: walt
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Pogo is a pleasant kind of possum. The star of Walt Kelly's comic strip (syndicated in 519 papers), is a wide-eyed, ingenuous little critter without a contentious bone in his body, and so. by and large, are all his swampland buddies. But now and then Artist Kelly, who has a sharp way of making a point, converts his strip into a sounding board. In 1954 he invented a new character called Simple J. Malarkey. who looked and fulminated so much like the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy that several newspapers took instant offense. e.g., the Orlando...
POLITICAL democracy as it exists in the U.S., wrote Walt Whitman, is "life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all." Even in Whitman's day, there were those (mostly those who knew least about politics) who insisted that life's gymnasium was equipped only with dumbbells, but then and now the fact is that politics shapes the daily life of every U.S. citizen; politics is indeed "not of good only, but of all." Last week, with the 1958 elections well in the past, the U.S. might have been expected to take a political breather...
...TIME has interest only in men! ADELINE DE WALT REYNOLDS...
...Walt Disney Presents...
With quarterback Dick McLaughlin and halfback Walt Stahura out of action with-injuries sustained in the Dartmouth game, the Crimson was a decided underdog against a winless but powerful Pennsylvania squad...