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Time for work. Low scudding clouds threatened the immediate appearance of Jupiter Pluvius, so I took the subway. New Yorkers commonly describe a ride on their beloved rapid-transit system as a journey through Hades, and mine this day was no exception. Heading downtown, I boarded one of the system's older trains -- creaking, crotchety and covered with indescribable graffiti. I looked closer at one cluster of squiggles, spray-painted by the ubiquitous Taki 183. Was it . . .? Could it be . . .? Yes, there in Babylonian script were the opening words of the Gilgamesh Epic...
...They'll Do It Every Time"; of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In Hatlo's mildly cynical humor, people typically said one thing while doing another-such as the lush who tumbled off the wagon on Jan. 2. And their names were in character: J. Pluvius Bigdome, president of Bilgewater Beverage; Tremblechin, his office stooge; and little Iodine, Tremblechin's daughter, who proved so antiseptic that she earned a strip...
...Crimson, further handicapped by the rainiest May in Boston's rainy history, has massed several games and innumerable practice sessions this spring. And even this afternoon the weather bureau has announced a third starting pitcher, Jupiter Pluvius, whose efforts could conceivably preclude the appearance of Cooke and Mackenzie...
...showers of April annually bring the flowers of May is an ancient truism. Even the rugs of many a Yardling will be sprouting, if it comes true. As is usual, the spring crop of water pistols, rather than Jupiter Pluvius, is spraying the area both indoors and out, but mainly...
Bigdome & Tremblechin. Because his comic, faintly tragic drawings show situations that are always happening to his readers, Hatlo at 55 has become one of the best-known cartoonists in the U.S. His two-panel cartoons are populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously...