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Purely Coincidental. To confirmed Blondie fans, Mr. & Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead, their son Alexander ("Baby Dumpling"), their daughter Cookie, their dog Daisy and her puppies are as real as the folks next door. When Cookie was "born," 431,275 readers suggested names for her. If Blondie fries an egg in a new-type pan, letters flood in from readers who want to know where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blondie's Father | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Bumpy does not feel too badly about breaking up the family for the duration. Her mother did the same thing in World War I. Her father, Yale Physics Professor Henry Andrews Bumstead, was caught in London at war's outbreak, became scientific attache to the U.S. Embassy. Her mother went to London to be with him, and Bumpy spent the war with her grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill & Bumpy | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...length each way and it is taken for granted that the ball must be hit within his reach.) Birthday dinner guests were Marion Davies, four Hearst sons and their wives, a handful of Hearst publishers, Movie Columnist Louella Parsons, ex-Georgian Prince David Mdivani, Film Actor Arthur (Dogwood Bumstead) Lake, several others. They nibbled a red and white cake (16 candles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Is 80 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Robert Alphonso Taft. Months ago (TIME, Dec. 18), the U. S. settled back to enjoy the Adventures of Robert in Bumbledom, decided that one of Mr. Taft's most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

TIME erred in crediting the invention of the sun compass to Admiral Byrd. It was devised by Cartographer Bumstead in collaboration with George Washington Littlehales, chief engineer of the Naval Hydrographic Office, after Byrd requested something better for his purposes than the magnetic compass. The Bumstead-Littlehales sun compass, which contains a clock and a latitude adjustment, works on the principle that the compass direction of the sun at any time of day depends on the latitude and the sidereal time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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