Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing about Skippy is, to people who do know about him, like belonging to a special, almost secret society in which there are only two members, Skippy and the person who knows about him. Of course, each member realizes there are lots of other members, because the comic-strip Skippy lives in and is syndicated in 85 daily and 40 Sunday newspapers throughout the U. S. But being a Skippy person is different from liking Mutt and Jeff or the Gumps. Skippy goes it alone, for one thing, although he is much younger than most comic-strip characters. Furthermore, there...
...statement as Mr. Hearst had planned. It required a long-distance call from Mr. Hearst's secretary in Chicago before the Star printed the Hearst statement at all. Then the Star chopped the thing up and printed about one-third of it on page 17, next to a comic strip...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...
...from Cape Town. Publisher Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun, gad-abouting over Africa and Europe, was forced down last month on the Italian Riviera. The strip of beach (near Bordighera) was too small for a takeoff. Last week he was still trying to load his ship on a barge to take it somewhere whence he can hop for England...
...chief merit is that planes have a 1,400-yd runway in any direction. Practically all the field is grass-covered. That permits comfortable landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large...