Word: hooliganism
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...curl atop his shining baldspot, turned his last handspring in the pages of Mr. Munsey's New York Press. A war-minded public scarcely noticed the passing of Foxy Grandpa, one of the great comic strip characters of an age that rejoiced also over the antics of Happy Hooligan, Buster Brown, Little Nemo...
Died. Frederick Burr Opper, 80, famed comic artist, creator of "Happy Hooligan," longtime potent political cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst; of heart disease ; in New Rochelle...
...anything in U. S. railroading could be considered permanent, it would be the dingy red freight caboose with its tiny cupola perched on top like the tin can or Happy Hooligan's head. Last week, however, the caboose also yielded to the progressive redesigning which is revolutionizing U. S. trains...
Though he has performed both roles with equal fervency, William. Randolph Hearst has not been, so far as cartooning goes, nearly so potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster...
Cartoonist Billy De Beck never donned baggy trousers and a putty nose to exhibit himself as Barney Google. Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...