Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cartoonists do not all belong to the same club. Cartoonists Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp), who draws Li'I Abner, and Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...
...When a radio editor [the New York Times's Jack Gould-TIME, March 4] chucks pulp-writing to the wolves, I for one must rise and protest in the name of all my kind...
...York Times's Radio Editor Jack Gould wrote: "Ratings are perhaps the biggest cross that radio has to bear and now would be a fine time to heave them...
Veteran Critic Gould knew he was attacking one of radio's most firmly entrenched practices. Sponsors and agencies, broadcasters and performers are much more concerned with the size of the audience than with the quality of the show. Said Gould: "The rating ... has been exaggerated to such an extreme that broadcasting has come to operate on a meretricious set of values. Whether a program has any intrinsic merit of its own is no longer the prime question...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...