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...York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look over the shoulder of an 83-year-old journalistic genius at work. Excerpts...
...Dreamland...
Nobody-least of all her teachers-could understand how that Traubel girl managed to get any education at all. Even the teachers assumed that Helen would be a singer; sometimes they'd ask for a song. Helen would sing Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland; if any boy groaned, "I'd bounce him on the head as I went by." When she got too far behind in her studies Father Otto hired a tutor, told her to "kindly stuff this little goose." Says Helen Traubel today: "I may be a numskull scholastically, but what I remember of my family...
...Dreamland. In Pueblo, Colo., city officials sold a lot carried on delinquent tax rolls for 76 years, and thereby found that it had never existed...
...Mother Russia, who always knows best, want them back? Many of the reclaimed believed that they would be resettled in Manchuria, where the Commissars now had a stake as big as that of the Tsars. Explained a Soviet newspaperwoman in Shanghai: "Manchuria is the dreamland for every Russian who has been there. The climate is good. There is work-where the railways are there will always be work, hospitals and universities. I think many will go to Manchuria. That would go very well with our Sino-Russian cultural relations, don't you think...