Word: manhasset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Joe Musial, 72, cartoonist who pioneered the use of comic books as teaching aids and drew the Katzenjammer Kids for the past 25 years; after a long illness; in Manhasset, N.Y. Musial took over Rudolph Dirks' comic strip featuring the terrible Teutonic twins in 1952 and, as art director of King Features' comic-book division, was also a ghost artist for many other series...
Died. William Cropper, 79, a leading artist of the social realist school; of heart disease; in Manhasset, N.Y. Gropper's cartoons and paintings savaged the privileged and the powerful; his capitalists looked bloated, his workers downtrodden. Though he was ostracized during the McCarthy era, his works hang in major museums and government buildings...
Died. Arthur Treacher, 81, English-born actor and archetype of the snooty butler; of heart disease; in Manhasset, N.Y. Treacher's first stage roles ranged from chorus boy to tragedian, but by the mid-'30s Hollywood had irrevocably type-cast him. While playing a conventionally polite butler in 1933, Treacher caught a director's attention with his acidly arch remarks. The character was hastily changed, and from then on, in dozens of movies, stage roles, and TV shows, Treacher perfected the persona of a cranky, bored, snobbishly insubordinate manservant...
Many doctors, reluctant to impose on other physicians, may avoid seeking treatment. "It leads to an uncomfortable sense of obligation," says an internist at North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, L.I. Others attempt to ease guilt feelings by sending expensive gifts to doctors who have treated them...