Word: ducking
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...comics were hit first. Outgrowing the moppet market, they had tapped a ready-made public: the soldiers loved them. At the peak, when anything from Supersnipe to Super Duck would move, sales had hit 40 million a month. Now they were down to 27 million, and still skidding. War-born pulps were going begging, too. One firm, whose stable of magazines goes up & down at the drop of a dime, had dumped 64 titles (Green Mask Comics, Sleepy Time Stories, etc.). But buyers still had some 1,200 titles to choose from...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
Harold E. Stassen, three-term governor of Minnesota, now wearing a gold duck in his lapel after three years as a Commander in the Navy, has, in three days in Cambridge, walked softly and talked gently to at least 2000 undergraduates, graduates, faculty members, and newspapermen...
...Bavarian custom, a victory for a centuries-long tradition of Catholic, monarchical conservatism. U.S. officials had seen it coming, and tried to duck. On the eve of the election they had banned Christian Social Union leader Friedrich Schaeffer from voting or holding party membership, denounced him as a "Nazi sympathizer...
Disney's setting of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a wolf whose gullet looks like something out of Dante; a cat which, in a moment of terror, has an all-claws resemblance to a brier bush; and a cute little feeble-minded duck named Sonia...