Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many conservative New Englanders, the 100-year-old Boston Herald regards tradition as no laughing matter. Yet for 16 years it has permitted itself and its readers a daily exception. In the cartoons of droll, deadpanned Francis W. Dahl, it has needled the Watch & Ward Society, kidded the champions of real New England (tomato-less) clam chowder,*poked fun at the customs and costumes of Beacon Hill...
Bostonians have loved every minute of it. One night a Herald engravers' plate was broken just before deadline, and the paper landed on 144,000 breakfast tables with no Dahl, but a printed box asking readers if he was missed. Four thousand readers promptly sent testy notes to the editor, saying yes. The omission has never been repeated, although Dahl seldom makes his 8:30 p.m. deadline with more than minutes to spare. When Dahl goes on vacation, the Herald exhumes his best sketches and reprints them. Rather than miss a day, it had him draw left-handed...
Because he concocts his cartoons out of local news items, and refuses to change his ways, mild-mannered Francis Dahl has never been syndicated. But for his collections of reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...hurdles were won, of course, by Hunter in 25.4 seconds with Petrolla, again, right behind him. Ed Lewis of Harvard came in third and Dahl of Rhode Island was in the fourth spot. Harvard came in third cmfw cmf spot. Clark hung up his second win in the 220, coming home in 23 seconds, not even bothering to climb out of his sweat suit for the event. Cameron was the number two man. Gilmartin of Holy Cross was the third and Kennett, of Rhode Island, fourth...
...program notes for Igor Stravinsky's new symphony. The notes were written by the composer's close friend Ingolf Dahl, and approved by Stravinsky. Last week the new symphony had its world premiere in Manhattan, conducted by Stravinsky, a myopic, big-eared, little man of 63, who hopped sparrowlike about the podium of Carnegie Hall. In contrast, he also played a revised version of his famed Firebird suite, which he had composed...