1:29:00
...which concludes our report from Washington.
1:29:03
In a lighter vein, readers of 463 newspapers...
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...from Bangor, Maine, to Honolulu
are asking this question:
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''Will Bash Brannigan,
hero of America's favorite comic strip...
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''...The Brannigans, really murder his wife?''
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If the answer is yes,
is this, then, the beginning of a trend?
1:29:20
Will Dagwood murder Blondie?
Will Li'I Abner knock off Daisy Mae?
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The answer remains the secret
of cartoonist Stanley Ford.
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And Mrs. Ford, said to be
the real-life prototype of Mrs. Brannigan...
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...is unavailable for comment.
1:29:34
On the weather picture, in New York tonight....
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its perfectly clear what happened.
1:30:46
She saw the drawings of the murder...
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...and in a typically idiotic female way...
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...she took it as some kind
of personal insult or something, I don't know.
1:30:54
Anyway, to make....
1:30:56
lf we're pacing, let's work out a traffic pattern.
1:30:58
You go this way, Ill go that way, all right?