Goodman Beaver is a comics character created by American cartoonist
Harvey Kurtzman. Goodman was a naïve and optimistic Candide-like
character, oblivious to the corruption and degeneration around him. The
stories were vehicles for biting social satire and pop culture parody.
Except for the character's first appearance, which Kurtzman did alone,
the stories were written by Kurtzman and drawn by Will Elder. Goodman
first appeared in a story in Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book in 1959, but
the best-remembered strips were the five stories produced by the
Kurtzman–Elder team in 1961–62 for the Kurtzman-edited magazine
Help! They tended to be in the parodic style Kurtzman had developed when
he wrote and edited Mad in the 1950s, but with more pointed, adult-
oriented satire and much more refined and detailed artwork on Elder's
part, crammed with countless visual gags. The best-known of the Goodman
Beaver stories was "Goodman Goes Playboy" (1962). A satire on the
hedonistic lifestyle of Hugh Hefner using parodies of Archie comics
characters, the story led to a lawsuit from Archie's publisher, although
Hefner, the actual target of the strip, found it amusing.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodman_Beaver>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de
Martinville made the oldest known recording of an audible human voice,
when he recorded himself singing "Au clair de la lune".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard-L%C3%A9on_Scott_de_Martinville>
1918:
World War I: Aníbal Milhais's actions during the Battle of the
Lys made him the only person to be awarded Portugal's highest military
honour Order of the Tower and Sword directly on the battlefield.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)>
1939:
After being denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall
by the Daughters of the American Revolution, African American singer
Marian Anderson gave an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson>
1999:
President of Niger Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was shot to death
by soldiers in Niamey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Bar%C3%A9_Ma%C3%AFnassara>
2005:
Charles, Prince of Wales, married his long-time mistress
Camilla Parker Bowles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales,_and_Camilla_Parker_Bowles>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unheralded:
Without prior warning; unexpected or unannounced.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unheralded>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in
wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely
flows forth from God, as that man does to the light who puts out his own
eyes.
--William Law
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Law>