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...Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under the seat. Last month Philbert achieved one distinction never granted Henry. He appeared on Collier's cover, in full color, for New Year...
...Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live on Manhattan...
Died. Elijah K. West, 63, one of the crew of eight who maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago's Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard...
DEFY THE FOUL FIEND?John Collier ?Knopf...
When Mr. Pipp acquired a daughter, a magnificent creature with a bust, a pompadour, and a Grecian profile (see cut), Charles Dana Gibson became world-famed. No U.S. illustrator has ever had such a vogue. Collier's paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...