U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for March 1

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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THURSDAY, MARCH 1: MAD MAGAZINE

Profile America — Thursday, March 1st.  Remember the freckle-faced kid with the goofy smile who has appeared for more than half a century on the covers of Mad magazine?  He is Alfred E. Neuman, whose most famous remark was "What, Me Worry?"  Neuman was the brainchild —like everything else in Mad — of the magazine's founder and publisher, William M. Gaines, who was born 90 years ago today.  Gaines made the magazine a humor mainstay for several generations of teenagers, with parodies of movies, comic strips and celebrities.  Now, even with stiff competition from television, computers, and video games, magazines in the U.S. attract close to $16 billion in advertising each year.  Profile America is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau: Measuring America—People, Places, and Our Economy.

Sources:  Chase's Calendar of Events 2012, p. 149
               www.dccomics.com/mad
               Statistical Abstract of the United States 2012, t. 1279

Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau