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...Capp himself is more of a writer than an illustrator. Like most comics, his strips are stories with standard scenes and characters, and liberal slices of cheesecake on the side. But the profusion of bit parts in Capp's cast-Lonesome Polecat, Fearless Fosdick, Stubborn J. Tolliver and Skelton McCloset the murdering musician-are unforgettably pictured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strippers | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Skelton, Cass Daley, Virginia Mayo. The orchestra is largely recruited from the St. Louis Symphony, and the producers, directors and designers are professionals from Broadway and Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Louis Habit | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fuller's Fillies | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Red Skelton, 34, rubber-faced, baby-talking radio and cinema comic, and second wife Georgia Maureen Davis Skelton, 26, retired starlet: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Richard Freeman. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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