Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...verbal humor and it sticks. It hurts a little bit." Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent...
...sophomore Britisher Michael Hauck may keep him company. Ogden and Keith Chiappa, two seniors who have been hampered almost incessantly with injuries during their careers, have both run good 440, 880, and mile times. In the mile they'll keep company with sophomore Jim Smith and Walt Hewlett...
...tremendous gesture of the Los Angeles Times in starting a clean-up on movie advertisements [Feb. 12] should lead other movie producers to be as smart as Walt Disney and present family entertainment. Mary Poppins got me into the Chicago State-Lake Theater, and that was the first time in ten years I had been to the Loop for a movie. After you read the sexy advertisements for the movies, all desire to attend one dissolves. For years people on the Academy Award show have halfheartedly jested about movies dying. They are not really dying-they are committing suicide...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...Army's Walt Oerhlein and Steve Darrah also must be reckoned with. Neither is strong enough to win the tournament, but they could knock down a few Ivy hopefuls...