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DIED. James Raymond, 64, illustrator for more than 40 years of the comic strip Blondie, which brings the antics of Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead to more than 1,800 newspapers in 55 countries; of cancer; in Boynton Beach, Fla. Raymond was 17 when he started working as an assistant to Chic Young, creator of Blondie, but not until Young died in 1973 and Raymond formed a collaboration with Young's son Dean did his name appear on the strip...
Wellsian fantasy? Verne-Vonnegut put-on? Maybe. But while this matutinal scenario may still be years away, the basic technology is in existence. Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be as familiar as Dagwood Bumstead's pajamaed panics. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins. All thanks to the miracle of the microcomputer, the supercheap chip that can electronically shoulder a vast array of boring, time-consuming tasks...
...Even for readers of the funny pages, there is no escape from reminders of the gloomy economy. Blondie's henpecked husband, Dagwood Bumstead, beefs about inflation. In the prosaic adventures of Mary Worth, two characters are currently struggling with unemployment. Alf, a character in The Dropouts, recently suggested a complicated idea for solving the present financial problems. "Terrific! Why don't you send a note to the world's economists?" a colleague enthusiastically recommends. Says Alf, "Can't afford to-'til the price of paper comes down." One of the oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie...
Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...
...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...