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...ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life.' I was merely on their boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harried By Horrid Hoaxes John Held Holds | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...other causes for grudge. "The first day I was here the reporters quoted me as branding glamor girls 'the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists.' Actually I don't give a hoot whether the latest fad is the flapper or the glamor girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harried By Horrid Hoaxes John Held Holds | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

Favorite artist to collegians of the '203 was John Held Jr., who gave the flapper a vogue. Appointed to be artist-in-residence at Harvard, he announced: 1) he didn't know what he was supposed to do, 2) the flapper's modern successor, the glamor girl, "is the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

When John Held, Jr., author and cartoonist who created Marge, the immortal roaring twenties flapper of comic strip fame, began his three month residence in Adams House yesterday, the University for the first time placed before the undergraduates a chance to work with a seasoned and well-known artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Held, Jr., Famous Cartoonist, to Have Residence and Studio in Adams | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

Helen Hayes went on the stage at five. From child parts to Little Lord Fauntleroy to Pollyanna to the flapper in Clarence, on to the big roles of her mature years, Helen moved steadily forward-and her mother with her. Whenever Helen signed a contract, her mother leaned over her shoulder. Whenever Helen was on stage, her mother stood in the wings. Mother was even privy to the "snares" Helen laid to catch her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Grandma Writes a Book | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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