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...their contemporaries, the surprising thing about the marriage of Prince and Princess Lieven was that it lasted for almost 40 years. Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage...
...hiring strikebreakers. Calling the police after Chowderhead became rambunctious. Editor Palmer yelled: "Here's the hiring man for the finks! This ex-convict is working for the steamship owners and they have the nerve to complain to Dewey about racketeers!" Bellowed beefy Chowderhead: "I'll take no gump from anybody! I'll talk to no -- reporters!" Six policemen then dragged him off to jail...
Last year Cartoonist Goldberg was invited to leave his artistic retirement, continue the late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected...
Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...
Last week the Supreme Court of the U. S. declared Eugene Meyer winner. The Post celebrated its victory with a six-column cartoon showing an imposing robed figure (Supreme Court) sternly pointing to a facsimile of the Post's front page, toward which Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Skeezix & family, Dick Tracy obediently trudged. Caption: "To Your Post...