Word: arpad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arpad, something of a neurotic himself, has whipped up a few more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken...
...Stinker, Chiseler!" At first Arpad was an ordinary rooster, with abundant tail feathers. To give the bird distinction, Pause defeathered him gradually, removing a little more tail each time Arpad appeared (usually only once a week) and adding clothes as he did so. It took six months, but not a reader noticed...
...Arpad's finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
Heimer and Artist Pause make Arpad a highly contemporary character. He Victory-gardened feverishly last spring. During the current wastepaper drive he has been pictured swooping patriotically. Except for allowing him an annual New Year's Eve binge, Heimer and Pause keep Arpad continent despite many protests from other staffers that he should enjoy the society of a hen now & then...
...popularity of Arpad and his little nephew, Gabe (who was added a year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week...