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When John Dille, head of the National Newspaper Syndicate, decided to put out a science-fiction comicstrip, he did some reading in sci-fi magazines-then just entering their fabled Golden Age-and found two stories he liked; "Armageddon 2419 A. D." and "The Warlords of Han." both by Phil Nowlan. He fast-talked Nowlan into writing the new strip, got him together with an artist named Dick Calkins, and let him go. The strip that resulted ran for almost forty years in newspapers all over the world...
...British Interplanetary Society is a serious body, dominated not by comicstrip artists and space-opera fictioneers, but by eminent scientists. Last week in London it was host to the Second International Congress on Astronautics, attended by 63 scientist delegates from societies in ten countries. For the delegates, space travel is a practical goal, and not too far in the future. Said Chairman Arthur C. Clarke of the society: "Space flight is likely to be the next major technical achievement of our species...
Benton's one-minute radio spots were pre-evaluated for crowd appeal, his comicstrip ads pretested for reader interest. He set up street-corner booths, stocked them with pretty girls, ran off five one-minute movies showing Benton the homebody (his wife showing off his scrapbook), Benton the internationalist (his trip inspecting ECA's Italian projects, aimed at the state's 239,000 Italians), Benton the statesman (flashes of Marshall, Eisenhower and Baruch endorsing his "Marshall Plan of Ideas...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...20th Century husbands ever lay violent hands on their wives the comicstrip researcher will never discover it. By a curious chivalry of newspaper cartooning, neither Jiggs nor any other male may pelt, pummel or kick a female...