Word: smilin
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...World. Once established on a paper, the astrological column characteristically tends to become a tenacious habit, like Skeezix or Smilin' Jack. The editor would often like to kick the habit, but his star-struck readers, 80% of them wom en, usually won't let him. Some years ago, the Chicago Daily News inadvertently dropped its canned horoscope. "The reaction was the most tremendous I've ever seen," said Feature Editor John Carey, who hastily reinstated the stars...
...recent months, a whole new contingent has entered the field. Joe Palooka, showing no effects of his 31 years as world heavyweight champion, recently outwitted the Reds to rescue a U.S. scientist in Austria. Smilin' Jack, the aerial barnstormer, smiles no more-he is doing his level best to keep the Russians from sabotaging the U.S. space effort. Winnie Winkle went to Moscow as a fashionable emissary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; alas, she wound up in the Russian pokey steaming away time in the laundry on trumped-up charges of espionage...