Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stabbed Baba Waring, leading lady of Folliana, when the lights went out? Most New York Daily News readers probably don't care. Those who do will never know, because Publisher Joe Patterson murdered Deathless Deer (TIME...
Deathless Deer was nine months old. Joe Patterson himself had fondly named her. She was the only new comic strip he had bought in nine years. The Deer herself was a beauteous Egyptian princess who in the fourth installment suffered death, then awakened 3,000 years later in a U.S. museum. From there she fared forth to undergo some of the dullest adventures ever seen in a comic strip...
Last week the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate informed 17 subscribing papers (circulation, plus the News's: about 6,000,000) that for them the strip would end Aug. 21. Deathless Deer's authors took it bravely. They are Joe Patterson's pretty, shrewd daughter Alicia and Artist Neysa McMein (magazine covers) They planned to wind up Princess Deer's present parlous situation (she is accused of stabbing Baba Waring), have her say to her lover in the final syndicate installment: "See you after the war." The ladies were whistling in the dark. Deathless Deer...
This week Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson minimized the report, said the situation was much less sensational. He claimed that vigorous remedial action had been taken immediately after the Knudsen investigation, denied that any engines "known to be defective" were ever placed in service...
...letters to TIME on "A Slate for Normalcy," 30 viewed Planner Patterson with alarm; 20 hoped (correctly) that he was solemnly spoofing; only 13 felt sure...