Word: aherne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-seven-year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After...
...Waldorf Astoria's convention chamber, Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned was to notify the trade that Cartoonist Gene Ahern, who originated and for 15 years drew famed Major Hoople of "Our Boarding House" for N. E. A., was henceforth to draw for King Features a new character called Judge Puffle...
...employers, Cartoonist Ahern plans to introduce Judge Puffle in daily papers June 15. Major Hoople has been drawn by N. E. A. staff men since March 15. This has left Gene Ahern nothing to do but play and admire the art collection in his Hollywood home until June i, expiration date of his N. E. A. contract. Only clue to Judge Puffle's possible appearance was the 30-foot silhouette of a pinguid, plug-hatted figure, not unlike Major Hoople in outline, which loomed above the orchestra and the heads of 20 blonde hostesses and Official Greeters James...
Hoople connoisseurs particularly admired Cartoonist Ahern's extravagant poolroom slang, in which slow race horses are called "turf turtles" or "land crabs," a crap game is described as a "few knuckles of dice...
...wrist injury in the early weeks of the season. His complete recovery is attested by the fact that he scored a one-round technical knockout over Wallace of M. I. T. with the formerly ailing member. In the New Hampshire match he won a decision from Conny Ahern, considered the star of the Freshman aggregation, and brother of the former New Hampshire Varsity star. Oakes uses more headwork than any of the yearling boxers, and is regarded by Coach Henry Lamar as one of the best Varsity prospects...