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...Russia, as in the U.S. and Britain, a hooligan is an unmannerly rough, named in all likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...
Both Starr and Gould were in the U.S. on Pearl Harbor morning. The Post's Managing Editor Frederick B. Opper was caught in Shanghai...
Died. Frederick Burr Opper, 80, famed comic artist, creator of "Happy Hooligan," longtime potent political cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst; of heart disease ; in New Rochelle...
Though he has performed both roles with equal fervency, William. Randolph Hearst has not been, so far as cartooning goes, nearly so potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster...
Cartoonist Billy De Beck never donned baggy trousers and a putty nose to exhibit himself as Barney Google. Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...