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...baby would ever be born. Reason: Moe Leff, longtime collaborator on the strip and its producer since the death in 1955 of Joe's creator, Ham Fisher, had sued to end his 20-year contract with Fisher's estate, quit drawing the daily strips distributed by the McNaught Syndicate to some 650 U.S. and foreign newspapers...
With a new McNaught Syndicate writer-artist team set to pump fresh ink into Joe, his prospects for an early retirement have faded fast. Best guess is that Joe's son will indeed be born. But poor Joe may never see the life as the worker for good causes that Leff had planned. Instead, to earn his living-and contribute to the McNaught Syndicate's income-Joe is more than likely to be tossed back into the ring with the rest of the palookas...
...replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought to," rejoined Popo. "She's my twin sister...
Never a Pundit. Swayze is also getting some belated recognition from the two mediums in which he worked for 20 years. Early this year, McNaught Syndicate hired Swayze to do a column called "New York," now appearing in 50 newspapers-a sentimental and often arch performance which reminds some readers of the folksy prose of the late O. O. Mclntyre. And last week, Swayze signed with Sponsor Raytheon (TV sets) for a 15-minute radio news program starkly entitled John Cameron Swayze...
Died. Charles Benedict Driscoll, 65, editor and columnist; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, N.Y. As editor of McNaught Syndicate, he hired as writers such famed names as Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. When his star columnist, O.O. Mclntyre, died in 1938, Driscoll took over the "New York Day by Day" column...