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...that Canyon and his jive talking crew had to go; Steve & Co. vanished from the Express without so much as a waggle of their wings. Steve's passing gave a clue to the differences between U.S. and British comic-strip tastes. Blondie is a fixture, in the Daily Graphic. Said an editor: "It never gets beyond the trifling happenings that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood, and Super-Sleuth Rip Kirby is doing nicely...
...tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable to tell him something that will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn't you?"; 4) "It is bad manners not to listen to the priest"; 5) "Be blunt, be brief, be gone...
...London, where Father bawled his lines for the first time last week, prospects were not so rosy. London's critics (like Rome's-TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering...
...most graphic irony of Moscow's failure was epitomized in the picture of the week-a gift from grim Foreign Minister Molotov to dogged Secretary of State Marshall. The painting, by Russian Landscape Painter V. N. Baksheev, 85, titled Toward Evening, showed a peaceful wooded scene whose tranquility was untroubled by a single human figure...
Married. Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, roth Marquess of Queensberry, 51, grandson of the man who supervised the formulation of the modern prize ring's rules (a boxing expert himself, the Marquess came to the U.S. last May to report the Louis-Conn bout for the London Daily Graphic); and Mimi Gore Chunn, 36, secretary of his wartime Queensberry All-Service Boxing Club; he for the third time, she for the second; in London, without the ring, which he had left at home...