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Appointed. Percy Leo Crosby, 41, cartoonist (Skippy, Always Belittlin). Wartime infantry lieutenant: to be a Major in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Easily could Cartoonist Crosby afford the $1,455 expense of sounding his clarion in the World. Skippy and his colleagues- Cuthbert, Sooky ("Always belittlin' "), Yacob, Aunt Gussie, Uncle Louie (the glassblower)-gather over $100,000 a year for their creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Crosby v. Capone | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once the phrase for which he is most famed, "Always belittlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: National Figure | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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