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...Every weekday 20,000,000 Americans rustle through the back pages of their newspapers to read a single-frame comic that looks as though it might have been drawn by a gifted, quizzical schoolboy. It is called Out Our Way and it is published in more newspapers (725 daily; 230 Sunday) than any other comic in the world. Unlike most U. S. comics, it has no continued story, no gags, no grotesque exaggerations, no scenes set in fantastic eras of the distant future or past...
...weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...
...prevent any false impressions among your readers, may I correct a few of your statements about our institution? In the first place, dancing is not quite the nightly pastime here that you would have your readers believe. Only once on weekday evenings (Tuesday) are there any more than half a, dozen students in Collection Hall, then only for half an hour. Weekend dances are mostly informal, open to limited groups only...
Sirs: In regard to Mrs. Patterson's "hen house"*(TIME, March 4): poultrymen in neighboring countryside look with envy on Cissie Patterson's "hen house." Amazingly prolific, her hens every weekday lay an egg in six editions, and on Sunday an inflated goose...
...never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial has to be written, even on a weekday, Don Ezequiel or his nephew usually calls in Sr. Gollan...