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Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...
...Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...
...Marshall Field long ago discovered, there are other ways of fighting Colonel Robert McCormick besides broadsides from the editorial page. Last week, Chicago Sunman. Field raided Tribuneman McCormick's prize stable of comic-strip artists, and captured one of the best: Milton Caniff, whose syndicated Terry and the Pirates appears in 220 newspapers with a total circulation of almost...
Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...
Poker and Solitude. He was rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...