Peepers, and was thought of as a leading young comedian of the new medium.
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It was a much-anticipated series in the fall of 1956. The switch is that instead of some stalwart he-man type, it’s puny little Wally Cox and his inept, bewildered cohort (Ainslie Pryor) was the big, handsome chap. Holiday was a super genius, able to out-strategize, outshoot, outduel or out-romance his adversaries and never break his cool, patient demeanor. Hiram Holiday was a man of adventure and action, accompanied by a bumbling but earnest sidekick as bad guys would try to get secret formulas or priceless gems or whatever the MacGuffin was that week with guns, bombs or blondes.
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Besides, TV was no longer that fresh or exciting to one who’d been exposed to it for thirty years. By the 1970s Keane didn’t need two features, and would rather devote his working hours to The Family Circus and his leisure ones to tennis. By the 1960s he had competing TV-oriented gag panels, two I remember were “ Station Break” and “ Show Biz by Flash,” which, just like Channel Chuckles, would usually be found cropping up among a paper’s TV listings, though Channel Chuckles had a Sunday version. I was surprised Bil Keane kept the Channel going as long as he did. To most, it’s as much an alien culture as if it were from some far-off country. I can’t add a Channel Chuckles file to the site, though I’d think it would be fascinating and educational- just too few would get the aging references. Politics, legalities and celebrity being as it is presently, one might get sued for making an unflattering reference anyway. If “ Channel Chuckles” were revived, I’m sure I wouldn’t get any of it because I’m too old to know or care about the current crop. Two other KFS puzzles fondly recalled by fans were “One Minute Crossword” Hearst offered the puzzles beginning in the 1920s. His brainchild caught on slowly, but in the early 1920s, it became a huge international fad, complete with crossword tournaments, clothing, classes teaching strategy, toys, and lots of newsreel trivia about special floats so that swimmers could take a puzzle break in a pool, or crossword-pattern poodles or tiny “crossword dictionaries” that might be tied around a woman’s calf.
It was created by Liverpudlian Arthur Wynn and ran on 21 December 1913. The first ever seen was in the Sunday New York World, one of the Hearst publishing rivals. There’s more than a century’s worth of crossword puzzles out there, and many have come from King Features. Perhaps when you’re away from work, you might fill some time with crossword puzzle-solving. The big Independence Day weekend starts any minute now. When you finish reading about how it all began, go have some fun here: So it comes as no surprise that The Archivist takes a look back at the crossword puzzles of yesteryear…
This week, Comics Kingdom launched the newly expanded Puzzles Palace section, which offers users access to more than 50 of the world’s best games, including such massively popular favorites as Crosswords.
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