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| Publication | April 9, 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: published every two weeks during the school year |
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| Cover | Face It! |
| Featuring | Patsy Manners |
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| Synopsis | Four activities. The large block above is composed of 27 small blocks. If you paint the outside of the large block, how many small blocks would have 3 colored sides, 2 colored sides, and 1 colored side? This is how to tie a knot in a handkerchief by picking up the ends with your arms crossed as shown. The knot will appear automatically. Watch this figure and see it change before your eyes (optical illusion). Fill in the above square with the clues shown below, so they read the same down and across. |
| Featuring | Fun Page |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Comic Story | Let's Face It (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Patsy gives beauty tips today. Beauty starts with proper diet, good posture, rest, exercise and cleanliness. |
| Featuring | Patsy Manners |
| Content | Characters: Patsy Manners; Aunt Eileen |
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| Synopsis | Mozart started writing little pieces of music when he was only five years old. Some were too complicated to be played. When he was a young boy, he wrote an oratorio in less than a week as a test for the Archbishop of Salzburg. The score for The Miserere had been kept a Vatican secret, until he was able to write down the entire score from memory, when he was 13, after hearing it only once. Though much of his later life was spent in poverty, his music was seldom sad or depressing. |
| Featuring | The ♪-Book: A Story of Music [The Note-Book: A Story of Music] |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Historical | Characters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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| Synopsis | Arriving at the scene of another toy rocket explosion, Chuck finds two more children injured. Editor Grew wants to stamp out all rocket clubs in town, including St. John's rocket club and have Chuck write a story to stop the rocket clubs. Chuck runs into Mike Kelly, who tells Chuck he just met a man trying to sell him rocket propellant. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Stuart (Flagpole) Boyd; Editor Grew; Mrs. Crocker; Father Carroll; Mike Kelly; Sister Rita |
| Notes | Max Pine was an alias of Frank Moss, per 2006 interview with Frank Borth: "You can find out in reading your things he also uses the word Max Pine as a substitute for him because he didn't want them to think he was writing everything in the place..." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849 |
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| Synopsis | After a lecture on vocational guidance, Paul tells the other kids he'd like to get into politics. The other boys tell him that he must be crazy, because politics is dishonest. Paul tells them that politics is only bad when men make it bad. The story then takes a look into the future, to see how Paul will make out, should he become involved in politics. |
| Featuring | Let Freedom Ring! |
| Content | Characters: Joe Esterhazy; Stephen Esterhazy; Paul; Ned; Bob |
| Notes | The last page lists quotations from Catholic sources that support Paul's decisions with the problems he faced in the story we just read. They are the kind of principles that people in public office should act upon. Within the story are footnotes that lead you to the principle used to justify his decision from this list. For example, you should vote for the best man running irregardless of his religion. Don't vote for someone just because they are a Catholic. That quotation is listed and credited mostly to Rev. John Ireland. |
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| Credits | Source Material (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Religious |
| Notes | This page lists quotations from Catholic sources related to the story we just read in Let Freedom Ring. |
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| Comic Story | George Westinghouse (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of George Westinghouse, the inventor of air brakes for trains. Before his invention, there were many train accidents, due to the fact that the brakeman had to rush from car to car and set the brakes by hand. It took a long time to stop a train in those days. Nobody wanted to pay to test Westinghouse's brakes until Andrew Carnegie agreed. On the very first trial run in 1869, the train was to make several test stops along the way, but had to be put to a full test when a man was thrown onto the tracks by a horse. The train stopped in time and saved the man's life. |
| Featuring | Heroes of Science |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as kasy?] (signed) | Inks:? [as kasy?] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: George Westinghouse; Andrew Carnegie |
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| Comic Story | Part VI The Laughing Death! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cufocr is able to speak with the spear-wielding natives. They look upon the Earth people as enemies and will be sacrificed to the gods of The Cave of the Laughing Death. They make a plan to break away from the natives, but the natives charge right before they are able to act and all are taken prisoner. The natives lead them to a cave. Once inside, they are led to a certain chamber within the cavern. The entrance will be blocked to allow the cavern to fill with a vapor that will make them laugh uncontrollably and then die. They hug the ground to escape the vapor and move the boulder away. |
| Featuring | Kidnapped by a Space Ship! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Colonel Martin; Jean Martin; Tom Pratt; Dr. Ney; Cufocr; Gecher |
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| Text Article | I Want to Be Happy (2 pages) |
| Featuring | You're Important! |
| Notes | Text article with four accompanying illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | To the Castle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hannibal roughs it through heavy brush to reach a castle, then sees there was a path all along. |
| Featuring | Hannibal Bear |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hannibal Bear |
| Notes | Inside back cover; pantomime gag-strip told in seven panels. |
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| Illustration | Feast of Saint Leo April 11 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The back cover depicts Pope Leo meeting Attila the Hun on his march toward Rome. Pope Leo fearlessly met the Hun on the field and talked him into sparing the city. |
| Content | Genre: Religious | Characters: St. Leo; Attila the Hun |
| Notes | It is interesting to note that the illustration of Attila and his two men look nothing like Mongol warriors. They could all easily pass for British soldiers of the era and don't look Asian, or Mongol-like at all. Attila is depicted wearing a coat-of-arms on his chest and a long, flowing cape. He has a broadsword in his scabbard and his men are carrying banners. |
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