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Stamaty, whose mother and father were both cartoonists, grew up in Elberon, New Jersey, and "always kind of knew I would be an artist and a writer, except when I was 14 and wanted to be a baseball player." That aberration passed, and Stamaty went on to earn a fine-arts degree from Cooper Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since...
...state of Iowa does have some cities with more than 190,000 people in them, but I can assure you that Elberon [Feb. 4] is not one of them. The population there should be hovering around 200, unless some of those Connally supporters forgot to leave...
...players in a paid campaign broadcast. John Connally dragged a busload of reporters on a tightly programmed 40-hour tour of the state that left them little time to interview anyone but Connally supporters. At one stop the troupe paid a 4:30 a.m. visit to a farm in Elberon (pop. 193,000) that just happened to be populated by 40 or 50 of the candidate's fans. Says Des Moines Register Reporter Elizabeth Ballantine: "The Connally people wanted to give the impression that he was just stopping by to see these people during their normal...
Another male bastion has fallen. After 222 years of masculinity, Princeton College last week opened its portals to 171 coeds enrolled for the fall term. The girls reported a warm reception. Consider, for example, June Fletcher, 18, a statuesque blonde from Elberon, N.J., who was named Miss Bikini, U.S.A., this summer. A ringer? Not at all, said an admissions official, pointing out that the lovely Tigress was in the top 1% of her high school class and won several public speaking contests. Purred June: "I've met so many boys today, they're all just one big blur...
Died. Alene Stern Erlanger, 75, dog fancier and breeder of championship poodles, who, as civilian consultant to the quartermaster general from 1942 to 1945, was responsible for the formation and training of America's infantry scout-dog platoons (the K-9 Corps); in Elberon...