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...Frederick Burr Opper, creator of "Happy Hooligan." Never an art student, Cartoonist Opper worked long for oldtime Puck, joined the Hearst press in 1899, first won fame & fortune with his cartoons of theMcKinley-Bryan campaign of 1900. For 30 years Arthur Brisbane has contributed political ideas for the Opper pencil. Early in this campaign "Happy Hooligan" was allowed to lapse when Publisher Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little busy-body surrounded by "Ropy" (Europe), "Bolivar...
...Five, do I hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...
...wants to give his good friend the Pope an inviolable means of communication between the Vatican and the remodeled papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A system using extremely short radio waves would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon. For the straight, light-like short waves cannot pass through the bulge of the earth or bend around...
...With hands which are usually busy knitting, Chairwoman Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, a motherly soul who is president of the Needlework Guild of America and whose husband used to run Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, took up a pencil and rapped on a table for order. Her signal got the attention of a potent segment of the nation's womanpower...
...building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...