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...front-page jibes. Their longest-standing squabble, concerning comic strips, reached a ludicrous end last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that the old contracts (with Chicago Tribune Syndicate) belonged to him alone (TIME, July...
...never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy Gump; there he will play golf (very creditably) with Bobby Jones. There he will again make quips like the one made in the showers after a disastrous round: "Well, there is one thing certain: I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
...University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...
...Editor Barden intended impolitely to bracket rich, potent Individualist Robert Rutherford McCormick with his newspaper's most famed comic strip character, "Andy Gump...
...squabble between Eugene Meyer's Washington Post and Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Herald over the right to publish the comic strips Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, et al. (TIME, July 24) : a temporary injunction restraining the Herald from printing them...