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Show 3 'mm mmmm jT lOtS ID tile SdUm I BY 6 ROBERT RIDING ey. I could save more than that betting on a "long shot." Speaking of comics I just finished fin-ished reading a timely article entitled en-titled "How You Help Draw Comic i Strips". 70,000,000 people read some comic strip or other every day and most of them are adults. The affairs of the Bumsteads, the quarreling quar-reling of Maggie and Jiggs, the birth of Sparkle Plenty and the adventures of Steve Canyon are taken as seriously as the atom bomb. If a cartoonist knowingly or unwittingly un-wittingly tampers with the likes or dislikes of his family of fans 7 ! I can't decide if I like Chic Young's comic strip "Blondie", or not ... It sure gives my wife funny ideas on how to economize. 9 : One day last week, my wife asked ask-ed me if she could have her ears 1 pierced, and order a set of gold earrings, along with a pair of new 1 shoes. (Birthday's coming up). I told her yes. 1 ; Well, the next night when I got 1 home from work, she told me how 1 ?he was going to save me money jn the deal. It seems that some 1 friend had informed her that it A'ould cost at least three dollars 3 to have her ears pierced. The 1 'surgery", plus the cost of the 3 earrings, added up to quite a sum. 3 ome to find out she wanted an- bther pair of shoes at two dol-ars dol-ars less than the earring business and she calls that saving mon- ' lllli:11!!)!';'!!! i!llirini!l!IHI!ll!l!ll!l!il!l!!!Ml ni;iill:i!lllllll!!ii;i;ilIilll!;Niniil he soon discovers the force behind public opinion. One Southern publisher won't print the Orphan Annie strip and carries an explanation on the front page saying that Annie will not be resumed until she gets the hell out of the realm of "nasty" politics pol-itics ... of course, Orphan Annie hasn't grown an inch for years, so I don't think she knows the difference. dif-ference. As for her dog, Sandy, he's the oldest dog I've ever seen or heard of . . . for that matter. . I've heard a lot of people ask why Johnson of Delta sat on the bench during the latter, part of the Delta - Beaver basketball game last Friday night ... I don't understand und-erstand it 'myself. Well, Hinckley won a league game by the overwhelming margin mar-gin of 1 point! . . . |