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Last week Sheik Monte Bourjaily announced that Cartoonist Dirks would no longer draw "The Captain & the Kids," acquired when U. F. S. bought the late World's syndicate contracts. Instead, beginning May 1, a young understudy, Bernard Dibble, creator of "Danny" in the Graphic, would carry on. Rudolph Dirks's "Captain & the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips...
...Last week, no longer spat-wearing but still jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...
Awarded. Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, estranged wife of Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher ("Mutt & Jeff"); $5,000 in a damage suit (burned ear) against Charles Jundt ("of the Ritz"), coiffeur; in Manhattan...
...Fred L. Rogan, raised $17,000 cash among themselves, got their magazine back again free of debt. Immediately the staff set to work upon next week's issue, promised there would be no lapse of publication. Reputedly interested in buying a minority share in Judge is wealthy, crusading Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy"), heretofore identified with Life...
...Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...