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...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...
...loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
Major Alexander Prokovieff de Seversky, the indefatigable exponent of Victory Through Air Power, next week takes wing in a new field. He will write a thrice-a-week column on air tactics and strategy for the McNaught Syndicate. Already signed up: 85 papers, including a fistful of big ones (New York Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Washington Star, Chicago Herald-American, Pittsburgh Press...
...fine promotion was never sent out, and last week Columnist Lyons switched syndicates from King Features to McNaught. The trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...
Thereupon Hearst wired harsh words to King Features. Lyons availed himself of a 60-day cancellation clause, signed with McNaught Syndicate. The change did not dampen his cheerful animation. McNaught Syndicate's Charles McAdam (a Lyons booster from way back) was confident he could add a lot more Lyons customers...