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At 79, Rudolph Dirks is the most tenacious cartoonist in the U.S., and at 60 his pen children, the Katzenjammer Kids, are the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. comic strips.
Though the Kids, who appear only in Sunday comic pages, have fallen behind such seven-days-a-week upstarts as Li'l Abner (820 daily and Sunday newspapers) and Blondie (1,200), their anarchistic appeal is still powerful enough to support their antics in two rival strips: The Katzenjammer...
German-born Rudolph Dirks was the first U.S. cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over...
Married. Robert Carl ("Zup") Zuppke, 77, German-born pig farmer, landscape painter and Katzenjammer-brogued longtime (1913-41) football coach of the University of Illinois, mentor of Red Grange, winner of five Big Ten championships, two ties; and Leona P. Ray, his housekeeper for 23 years; he for the second...
After a mild demonstration in Mr. Mittell's favor quieted down, the band really gave cause for cheering by playing Mr. Finnegan's "Variations On A Well-Known Theme." The theme was "Marching to Pretoria" and was played as Sousa might have, then in the style of Walter Shaman's...