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Once edited by Poet Lafcadio Hearn, the 72-year-old Item had its liveliest years (1891-1906) under gun-toting Editor & Publisher Dominick O'Malley, who was twice wounded in pitched battles. In the 1930s it slumped in prestige and circulation, partly because it acted as a mouthpiece for Boss Huey Long while the rival Times-Picayune- whiplashed his regime...
Help! Police! In Chicago, Sergeant Edward O'Malley asked fellow policemen, to help look for his stolen automobile, explained that it ought to be easy to spot: it still carried expired 1946 license plates...
Johnson's brain children were the elves, gnomes, leprechauns and little men-and a talking dog-that peopled Barnaby, a fey and fanciful strip that began in Manhattan's tabloid PM in April 1943. Johnson liked them all, from Gorgon the dog to Mr. O'Malley, Barnaby's pink-winged fairy godfather whose long cigar was a magic wand. But keeping them on schedule was a grind. Hulking Crockett Johnson tired, began plotting his escape...
...story conferences-and shares in profits from the strip-but Barnaby takes little of his time. By now, says Ferro, "it's all done by telepathy." Freed from his daily grind, Johnson is writing a book about Barnaby for publication in the fall. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, a play adapted by Johnson and Jerome Chodorov from the strip, will open in Wilmington next week, may get to Broadway in the fall...
Along the Third Rail. In Boston, Francis E. O'Malley, chased down the subway tracks by a policeman and a subway starter, was caught at the next station, declared he knew no reason for the chase, later was surprised to learn his pursuers had none either...