Life, 1927-11-17 · page 9 of 48
Life — November 17, 1927 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page features "The College Comics," a section satirizing young people's romantic and social situations. The main cartoon shows a man contradicting his romantic advances to a woman, with the caption "He: THE FIRST TIME YOU CONTRADICT ME I'M GOING TO KISS YOU. / She: YOU ARE NOT!" Below are three brief comic dialogues mocking dating conventions and marriage. "The Wise-Cracking Sub-Title Writer" column discusses Joseph E. Bussell, a reporter from Blinkerville, New Jersey, whose verbose police reports filled three lines of text. The humor derives from the contrast between his detailed accounts and the mundane subject matter—a stolen bicycle and recovered watch. The satire targets verbose writing styles and young people's courtship rituals typical of 1920s-30s American social life.
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Oc a75se2z0 The College Comics The Wise-Cracking Sub-Title Writer Turns to Reporting OSEPH FE. BISSING, of 108 J Clinton Avenue, who is so dumb he thinks an Automat is some- thing you wipe your feet on, was held ip and robbed Jast night three blocks from his home in Blinkerville, New Jers Blinkerville is a big city. They moved the resi- dential district the street because they wanted to make room for the A. & P. According to Bissing, be had just turned out of Sub- urbin Avenue, the commodious fare It three ross town’s most thorough- can accommodate lines of — traffie—all As he did so the xaccosted him. The was so hard he scratched his mosquito bites with a buzz saw. Bissing handed aver thirteen dollars in cash, a scarf pin and his watch. Joseph hated to the watch as it was an heirloom. It had been in the family for thre bieyeles, lose He: police lookout have been on the They wanted the mayor to offer a reward for the criminal, but no arrests have — doesn’t been made as we limp to press. The force is a big one; two hundred and fifteen pounds in his stockings. His father was only a traffic cop but he stop at) anything. in a red glass bowl to make his kids think they're goldfish. The case is the most mysterious in Blinkerville history. They solved the ¢ Parke Cummings. whole her one Progressing W ILLIS: I've lessons in French from a correspondence school Giuuis: So? ( ry on taken three a conversation with Frenchman? Winuts: Oh, no. talk to anybody el three lessons. tT could who had WYER: been married six weeks, yet seck a divorce. Upon what grounds? Fuapren: We were secretly married, he actually makes me keep the secret. Soy Inhuman cruelty FIRST TIME YOU CONTRADICT ME I’M and GOING To Kiss You. you are Not! THE comicbooks.com